If you’ve tried to lose weight with diet or exercise and been unsuccessful, you may be a candidate for weight-loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery.

Community Hospital's experienced, compassionate surgeons offer two minimally invasive (laproscopic) weight-loss procedures that have been found to be the safest and most effective.

Gastric bypass

The Roux-en-Y bypass, or simply gastric bypass, is the most common weight-loss surgery and has been performed for more than 50 years. A small pouch is created by dividing the top of the stomach from the rest of the stomach and the small pouch is connected to the small intestine, bypassing the divided stomach. By creating this small pouch, people feel full with less food. In addition, rerouting food produces changes in gut hormones that promote a feeling of satisfaction, suppress hunger, and reverse one of the primary mechanisms by which obesity contributes to type 2 diabetes.

Vertical sleeve gastrectomy

The vertical sleeve gastrectomy has become the most popular weight-loss surgery. The sleeve gastrectomy is a restrictive procedure in which 80 percent of the stomach is removed, creating a small tube or sleeve shape. This reduces the amount of food that can be consumed at one time, contributing to weight loss and it may also produce hormonal changes that decrease hunger.

We also perform revisional weight-loss surgery when necessary and we have a special interest and expertise in caring for seriously overweight people who need non-weight-loss surgery, as well.

In general, weight-loss surgery works through some combination of decreasing the amount you can comfortably eat at one time, preventing you from absorbing calories, and producing hormonal changes that may help decrease appetite and improve diabetes.