Bariatric Services
The benefits of weight loss go beyond cosmetics.
Begin Your Weight-Loss Journey Today With Covenant Health
Are you struggling with obesity or losing weight? The benefits of losing weight for your overall health and wellness are many. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can improve your energy levels, boost your self-confidence, and improve or even eliminate weight-related health conditions like type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure, heart disease, and high cholesterol.
Take the Next Step! Attend a Free Bariatric Seminar
Attend one of our information seminars in Knoxville, Tennessee. Register online or call 865-374-0411. We look forward to seeing you!
Seminars are Now Available Online
If you prefer, you can watch the bariatric seminar online. No registration is required – just click the link. After you’ve watched the seminar, fill out the form HERE and a care coordinator will contact you with next steps to successful weight loss
If You’re Struggling With Weight Loss . . .
Covenant Health’s Bariatric Services program offers customized, state-of-the-art weight-loss solutions. Our team of board-certified bariatric surgeons, physicians, dietitians, and experienced weight-loss management staff work together to provide you with a comprehensive treatment plan. We offer both non-surgical and surgical solutions for optimal healthy weight loss.
How Can You Tell If You’re Overweight? Take Our Bariatric Self-Assessment!
If you weigh more than what’s medically determined to be healthy for your height, you’re likely to be categorized as overweight or obese (depening on how much you exceed your desired weight).
Bariatric surgery may become medically necessary if your weight puts you at high risk for developing life-threatening health problems. The biggest indicator for these risks is your body mass index (BMI). As your BMI increases, so does your risk of developing weight-related health conditions.
Complete our Covenant Health Bariatric Self Assessment to calculate your BMI. Then take our surgery self-assessment to determine if weight-loss surgery could be the best solution for you.
Bariatric Treatments and Services at Covenant Health
Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric bypass surgery (laparoscopic Roux-en-Y) is considered “the gold standard” of weight-loss surgery. This procedure reduces the stomach’s size through stapling and bypasses the large intestine, resulting in less calorie absorption.
Patients also tend to report a greater sense of satiety from less food. The surgery results in less production of ghrelin, a hormone believed to be partly responsible for feelings of hunger.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Gastric sleeve surgery (laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy) permanently reduces the stomach to the size and shape of a banana. This smaller stomach size restricts the amount of food that can be eaten, so patients lose weight by eating fewer calories. This procedure also impacts the production of ghrelin.
Biliary Pancreatic Diversion
Biliary pancreatic diversion is a complex surgical weight-loss procedure that combines aspects of gastric bypass surgery and gastric sleeve surgery. After this procedure calories are incompletely absorbed, which results in weight loss.
Bariatric Revision and Conversion Surgery
For a variety of reasons, a small number of patients may require revision or conversion of a previous bariatric operation.
Sometime individuals benefit from an additional procedure to relieve symptoms of nausea, or if significant and lasting weight loss has not been achieved.
The goal of a revision is to modify an original procedure, while a conversion replaces a non-optimal procedure with a different approach.
Our bariatric surgeons are experienced in performing both revisions and conversions of previous weight-loss procedures. They evaluate each patient’s unique situation and needs, and recommend appropriate treatment.
Gastric Band Repairs
Covenant Health does not perform new gastric band surgeries, but will repair previous lap band surgeries.
Non-Surgical Weight Loss Solutions
If you’re ready to lose weight but aren’t ready to take the surgical step, you may benefit from a medically supervised weight-loss program as part of your bariatric surgery counseling process.
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