Weight Loss Surgical Center Plans New Hospital

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Weight Loss Surgical Center announced today that it will build a new specialty hospital to expand its services to more patients seeking the adjustable gastric band procedure for weight loss.

Weight Loss Surgical Center currently operates an ambulatory surgery center at

8101 W 135th Street in Overland Park. The new facility, to be located at 12850 Metcalf Avenue and named Blue Valley Hospital, will be licensed as an acute care hospital.

“Every month, we see more than 100 new patients who are interested in losing weight with adjustable gastric bands,” said Douglas Palzer, CEO and founder of Weight Loss Surgical Center. “We cannot take some of those patients to surgery right now, because their insurance plans require the surgery to be performed in a hospital instead of an ambulatory surgery center. Our move to a hospital facility will help us serve the increasing demand for this life-changing procedure.”

Blue Valley Hospital will feature state-of-the-art operating rooms designed for the needs and safety of morbidly obese patients. The facility also will house a Weight Loss Surgical Center clinic on site for new patient consultations and

adjustable gastric band post-op care. The new hospital is scheduled to open in the summer of 2010.

Weight Loss Surgical Center performs hundreds of

LAP-BAND® and REALIZE™ Band surgeries each year at its ambulatory surgery center in Overland Park. For initial consultations about the band and for long-term post-operative care and band adjustment, Weight Loss Surgical Center has eight clinics, located in Overland Park, Wichita and Topeka, Kan.; Independence, Springfield and St. Louis, Mo.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Omaha, Neb.