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HealthwiseMetabolic in the Hospital
Over the past several decades as we have all watched the obesity epidemic grow unchecked, and the co-morbidities associated with obesity cripple our healthcare system. One shining light of hope has emerged. Bariatric surgery; procedures with clinically proven outcomes which in the hands of qualified bariatric surgeons are among safest performed today. Bariatric surgery is quickly becoming a ‘must have’ for hospitals and their patient population.
As bariatric surgery becomes main stream, more hospitals are entering the bariatric market, only to find it a very challenging endeavor with very few resources available to help develop the comprehensive care plans necessary to become a bariatric center of excellence. Quickly hospitals are learning that having a bariatric program is more than just having a bariatric surgeon. A team of bariatric physicians, nurses, dieticians, exercise physiologist and behaviorist are necessary to adequately provide all of the preoperative and postoperative needs of bariatric surgical patients. Bariatric surgery means offering ‘medically supervised’ preop care to meet insurers requirements for surgical authorization, it means have perioperative nutritional care to meet the ACS and ASMBS perioperative guidelines and finally it means offering patients long-term postoperative care to ensure best outcomes and reduced risk.
HealthWise Metabolic and our team of bariatric physicians and nutritional scientist have been helping hospitals and bariatric surgeons fully integrate comprehensive bariatric services into their hospital operations of years in America.
HealthWise Metabolic is not interested in you building our brand, and promoting our product as ‘the’ solution to patient’s weight loss. We will help you build your program. We want your patients to understand that although top quality nutritional support is important in their long-term success, it’s not all about a nutritional products, its’ about their hospital, their surgeon and their bariatric team. We build your name and reputation as the experts in obesity care not ours. Our bariatric surgical programs were designed by bariatric physicians following the ASMBS perioperative guidelines and based upon decades of clinical experience by our bariatric team. Our perioperative treatment protocols are individualized for patients, surgeons and hospitals to reduce risk, and improve outcomes
What sets HealthwiseMetabolic apart in the medical nutritional market is that when you have questions about bariatric perioperative care we have answers. We have full-time bariatric physicians to answer your questions, your patient’s questions and your surgeon’s questions. Not only do we have the people to provide the answers but with our HealthWise Metabolic division we have a complete nutritional product line developed specifically for bariatric surgical patients. Our bariatric perioperative nutritional products are medically formulated to meet the specials needs of perioperative patients based upon the ASMBS perioperative guidelines and we’ve designed these delicious tasting products in the portion sizes necessary for postoperative patients. HealthwiseMetabolic products are, of course, available to your program or you may recommend the purchase of HealthwiseMetabolic products through our online store.
For your review, we have included the ASBMS perioperative guidelines and the HealthwiseMetabolic guidelines for different surgical approaches
Nutritional Plans
The HealthWiseMetabolic Diet Plan:
Perioperative Guidelines