Article: Spectrum Health and Michigan Medical P.C. First in West Michigan to Offer Innovative LAP-BAND Procedure for Bariatric Surgery.

Article: Spectrum Health/Michigan Medical, P.C. ...
Business Wire;  October 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Mich. -- The Spectrum Health/Michigan Medical ... MMPC(R)) Bariatric Program was recently named ... designation reflects Spectrum Health and MMPC as leading ... director of the Spectrum Health Bariatric Program. "Our program ...

Article: Spectrum Health Bariatric Program ...
Business Wire;  August 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2003 Spectrum Health officials today announced ... complications each year. Spectrum Health said the new Bariatric Program located at its Blodgett ... workers will staff the unit. Spectrum Health currently performs about ...

Article: Fine-tuning a bariatric program brings success and ...
Healthcare Strategic Management;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... smooth system for how they work together. Joan Ruppman, director of St. Francis's bariatric surgery program, and bariatric program medical director J. Stephen Marshall, M.D., speak openly about the discussions three years ago among hospital executives ...

Article: Key elements for success of a bariatric ...
Healthcare Strategic Management;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... obese patients. A hospital often must commit to having anywhere from two to 10 full-time dedicated staff coordinating a bariatric program or it simply won't work. Some hospitals now have as many as two-dozen full-time nurses, PLNs, therapists, dieticians ...

Article: Facility works to ensure safety in bariatric ...
HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Facility works to ensure safety in bariatric program Most complications are preventable, experts say Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton), a recipient ...

Article: New bariatric program set to start soon
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 23, 2008 ;     445 words ...OREM -- A new bariatric surgery program is set to begin at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Bariatric surgery, better known as gastric bypass surgery, decreases the volume of the stomach and reduces caloric intake. The new program, a partnership between Utah Valley Regional and Utah County

Article: United States: Samaritan offers bariatric program.
TendersInfo;  September 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: manish03 Samaritan Healthcare is offering a temporary reduced cost bariatrics surgery program to test the results before implementing the program. Bariatrics is necessary because obesity causes health problems such as diabetes, cancer and heart issues, said Dr. Louis Martin, general