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Mercy Hospital, an industry leading, acute care hospital that has been providing high quality services in South Florida for more than 60 years, recently announced that it officially has launched a dedicated metabolic and bariatric surgical program.
The bariatric program within Mercy Hospital’s Surgical Weight Loss Center is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary program that offers Harvard fellowship-trained bariatric surgeons, minimally invasive surgical options, a dedicated bariatric coordinator, expert dietitians, psychologists and much more.
“Weight loss surgery is not a cosmetic procedure, it focuses on restoring patients’ overall health and, in some cases, has the power to drastically improve and potentially reverse chronic health issues such as Type 2 Diabetes,” said Mercy Hospital’s CEO, David Donaldson. “At Mercy Hospital, we pride ourselves on taking a holistic approach to patient care and our new metabolic and bariatric program has the resources in place to transform our patients’ physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.”
All bariatric procedures offered at Mercy Hospital’s Surgical Weight Loss Center are robotic and laparoscopic, a minimally invasive approach that uses a thin tube to create smaller incisions that result in less scaring. The two main types of procedures offered are Gastric Sleeve Surgery, where the stomach size is surgically reduced by up to 60 percent, and Gastric Bypass Surgery, which restricts the stomach size by creating a small pouch causing food intake to bypass a portion of the patient’s stomach. Gastric Bypass patients are known to lose up to 60 percent of their body fat.
Mercy Hospital’s Surgical Weight Loss Center is led by a best-in-class surgical team, Dr. Steven Henriques and Dr. Limaris Barrios. Both doctors received fellowship-training in minimally invasive metabolic and bariatric surgery and Harvard University. The expert physicians support their patients throughout their wellness journeys and utilize a team approach to care before, during and after surgery.
“I always tell my patients in our first meeting that they are getting a physician for life;” said Dr. Henriques, chief of surgery at Mercy Hospital. “We specialize in robotic gastric sleeve and bypass surgery which enables us to make smaller incisions. The robotic platform allows us the ability of 360-degree range of motion which drives more precise patient outcomes and faster recovery periods.”
To learn more about metabolic and bariatric surgery at Mercy Hospital visit https://mercy-hospital-miami.choicepath.me/.
