Category Archives: Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery

What Is the Cost Associated with Weight Loss Surgery?

Hallmark Health System’s Center for Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery located at Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford offers several types of weight loss surgery including gastric banding, gastric bypass and LAP-BAND® surgeries. If you’re considering one of these procedures … Continue reading

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How Will My Life Change After Weight Loss Surgery?

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are considering weight loss surgery as an option for battling obesity, and the reasons are well defined. Surgeries like the LAP-BAND®, gastric bypass and gastric sleeve procedures are billed as minimally invasive and effective solutions … Continue reading

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Are You Struggling with Weight Loss?

Ready to make a real change? Weight loss surgery might be the option that’s best for you. Find out more at one of our free information sessions.

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Is Weight Loss Surgery Covered by Insurance?

If you’re considering weight loss surgery as an option for managing your obesity and are wondering whether the surgery will be covered by insurance, the first thing we suggest doing is coming to a Hallmark Health System weight loss surgery … Continue reading

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Are You a Candidate for Weight Loss Surgery in Massachusetts?

Come to Hallmark Health System’s Center for Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery to find out. Because we’re in Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford, Massachusetts, we’re easy to get to and close to you. When you visit us, our surgeons … Continue reading

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Hallmark Health System Center for Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery is a Bariatric Center of Excellence

Why Hallmark Health System Weight Loss Program Is Different Hallmark Health System Center for Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery is a Bariatric Center of Excellence If you’ve been struggling with eating and sickness that is related to an unhealthy … Continue reading

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What Is Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery?

What is Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery? Obesity is a life threatening disease that is much more serious than just having clothes that do not fit well or being embarrassment over the extra weight. In the U.S., 33 percent of all adults … Continue reading

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What Is Lap Band Surgery?

In our three part series, we are covering the three types of bariatric surgery performed at Hallmark Health System’s Center for Weight Loss Management and Weight Loss Surgery. Today, we are discussing the Adjustable Gastric Banding, often referred to as … Continue reading

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What Is Gastric Bypass Surgery?

Report after report tells a story about the high obesity rate in this country. The blame is laid on many factors from over eating, little to no exercise, packaged food and many other factors. Fad diets come and go with … Continue reading

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Extra Pounds Can Increase your Risk of Certain Diseases

As a person’s weight increases so does the risk of many serious diseases. Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, certain types of cancers, hypertension, strokes, gallbladder disease; the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, as a person gains more weight, … Continue reading

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