IWLS adds non-surgical option and supplements
September 1, 2010
Surgical weight loss program trend
Innovative Weight Loss Solutions first began changing the lives of morbidly obese patients in October 2000. Leading this, the first surgical weight loss program in the state, was general surgeon Charles Bollman, M.D., who was one of the first surgeons trained to do gastric bypass for weight loss purposes. Since then, the general and laparoscopic surgeons at Geary Community Hospital have performed 946 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgeries, 109 LAP-BAND surgeries, and one revision for a total of 1,056 surgeries. Today, Fouad Hachem, M.D., a fellowship-trained laparoscopic bariatric surgeon, performs most of the bariatric surgeries laparoscopically.
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Remarkable woman attains dream career
August 28, 2010
When I first met Katy McGuire (Paxton) Noa, she was working in the kitchen at Geary Community Hospital in 1988. She was one of 12 children from a Junction City family and, understandably, the family didn’t have the resources to send all the children to college. She did what she could to help support her own young family while she figured out what she wanted to do with her life.
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Hospital to save big, electronic health records, and AlphaCare
July 28, 2010
Big savings coming
Good news! The hospital is going to be saving big bucks. Geary Community Hospital was invited to participate in an initiative through VHA Inc. that should save $300,000-$400,000 over the next year.
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Don’t wait until it’s too late to get help
June 30, 2010
My mom is in a memory home in Kansas City. During my dad’s long and torturous slide toward death two years ago, she neglected her own health while caring for him. She became depressed and suffered a series of mini-strokes, which sent her to the hospital on more than one occasion. She was eventually diagnosed with stoke-induced dementia after it was too late to reverse the damage.
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Local physician practices what he preaches
May 19, 2010
Local internist Dr. Tom Craig is an intelligent, well-read and likeable physician who practices what he preaches. He eats sensibly, exercises daily, and knows his numbers. It didn’t take him 29 years of medical practice to recognize that if Americans don’t change their life styles to eat less, exercise more, manage their diseases with regular doctor’s visits, and know their numbers, they will be in a world of hurt.
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