The USA Health Center for Comprehensive Weight Loss provides a variety of services to help you on your weight-loss journey. Meet with a dietitian or learn about surgical options from one of our board-certified bariatric surgeons.
The clinic's hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Center Providence Hospital is an Accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Center and an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Quality Partner. MBSAQIP is a comprehensive, nationwide quality program aimed at ensuring the safe and effective performance of metabolic and bariatric surgery. Research shows accredited centers experience lower complications, and better outcomes than those of non-accredited facilities.
Providence Hospital has been recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama with a Blue Distinction® Centers for Bariatric Surgery designation, part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. To earn this designation, a healthcare facility must demonstrate that it meets many specific patient quality and safety metrics, including providing effective bariatric surgical procedures with a very low complication and readmission rate.
Your journey beings with a free seminar to learn about your weight-loss options, what to expect, and how to change your lifestyle. You can attend a seminar in-person or watch a prerecorded one below:
Once you've watched the seminar video, please submit your information. We look forward to talking with you!
At the USA Health Center for Comprehensive Weight Loss, we offer many options for weight loss services. In addition to medically supervised weight-loss and dietitian-lead lifestyle management, we perform three types of bariatric surgeries. These procedures can be performed laparoscopically or robotically with small or open incisions. Nearly all of Dr. Laan’s weight-loss surgeries use small incisions.
In a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, we divide the stomach with a stapler to make a small pouch, reducing the patient's stomach capacity from the size of a football to the size of an egg, so the patient will feel full with less food. We attach a Y-shaped section of the small intestine to the pouch, so food bypasses most of the stomach and goes directly into the “roux limb.” Most patients do not experience excessive malabsorption of nutrients, and the ability to consume fluids is not affected because they quickly pass through the pouch. Patients typically lose 60-70% of their excess body weight. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass also can reduce symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
In a sleeve gastrectomy, we remove the outside portion of the stomach to create a long, tubular shape like a banana. By reducing the volume of the stomach, the patient will feel satisfied with less food, so they will eat less and lose weight. Unlike gastric bypass, this procedure does not involve rerouting the intestines. Because it does not involve intestinal malabsorption, the patient must eat a healthy diet and exercise to maintain optimal weight loss. Patients who have a sleeve gastrectomy usually lose 50-60% of their excess body weight.
BPD/DS is a two-step procedure. First, we perform a sleeve gastrectomy to remove the outside portion of the stomach, reducing its volume. But unlike a sleeve gastrectomy, we do not remove the pyloric valve, which releases food to the small intestine. We also leave the duodenum, the portion of the small intestine that connects to the stomach. Second, we bypass the majority of the intestine by connecting its end to the duodenum. A BPD/DS reduces how much the patient can eat and how many nutrients they can absorb. It is recommended for patients whose body mass index (BMI) is greater than 50.
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The USA Health Center for Comprehensive Weight Loss offers free parking to all patients and visitors.
This clinic offers free parking and complimentary Wi-Fi to patients and their guests.
Board-certified physicians from USA Health’s Center for Women’s Health and Coastal OB/GYN, along with other care team members, will be present to meet expectant moms and others seeking obstetrics and gynecologic care.
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