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United Regional Health Care System (URHCS) offers bariatric patients superior facilities and excellent care. Built in 2003, the dedicated Bariatric Unit has private rooms fully equipped to accommodate the needs of the overweight patient, including bariatric friendly bathrooms and extra wide beds and wheel chairs. Our highly skilled and compassionate nursing staff have specialized bariatric training and understand the many clinical needs of the bariatric patient.

Registered dieticians provide nutritional and dietary support, a key to long-term success. Gastric bypass surgery is a tool that imposes and requires major changes in eating habits and behavior. Our dieticians have formulated step-by-step nutritional guidelines and counsel patients both before and after surgery. Learning new eating habits and following the nutritional guidelines will help patients achieve and maintain desired weight loss. The hospital has full critical care services in house and highly trained physicians from numerous specialties to address various needs of our bariatric patients.

United Regional Health Care System
1600 8th Street
Wichita Falls, TX 76301		 Phone: (940) 764-7000

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Psychological counseling and psychiatric care is provided to our patients through Taft Counseling Center. Mr. Walter Swinhoe, executive director, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an accredited Pastoral Counselor at the Fellow level. Dr. Emory Sobiesk, MD, is a psychiatrist. They offer individual, family, and group therapy to help our patients obtain the greatest potential benefit from having gastric bypass surgery. Since a person's state of health is a delicate balance of several factors-physical, emotional, spiritual and relational-the counselor attempts to understand each person from a holistic perspective.

  
     
 
Experts agree that psychological support and counseling can prepare gastric bypass patients for potential pitfalls and teach them effective coping skills. Since unresolved behavioral patterns can cause patients to lose motivation and veer from a new healthy lifestyle, therapy can be an essential tool in preserving patient commitment and overcoming eating compulsions or disorders. The full benefit of surgery is realized as patients are totally committed and recommitted to a new and healthy lifestyle. Ongoing psychological reinforcement after surgery leads to long-term success.
 
Taft Counseling Center
4722 Taft Boulevard, Suite 2
Wichita Falls, TX 76308		 Phone: (940) 691-1899
 
     
 
 

 

 

  
   
 Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital is a nationally established rehabilitation facility specializing in both inpatient and outpatient therapy. Their goal is to help patients return to normal daily function by offering physical conditioning, strengthening, and therapy to treat various underlying physical disorders. Therapists treat disorders such as pain in the extremities and joints, problems with walking, difficulty performing job requirements or daily activities, postural abnormalities and back pain.  
   
 

The facilities at Healthsouth are equipped with appropriate and specifically designed equipment to assist bariatric patients in meeting their goals. These include high-quality cardiovascular and resistance equipment. Aquatic therapy in the indoor pool is also available. Each person receives an individualized evaluation and instruction from licensed physical therapists and occupational therapists who are experienced, understanding, and knowledgeable of the unique problems of bariatric patients.

Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital
3901 Armory Road
Wichita Falls, TX 76302		 Phone: (940) 720-5700

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 North Texas Rehab Center provides a first-step rehabilitation program with physical therapy and reconditioning for patients in the immediate post-operative period as well as a second-step exercise maintenance program. Their Aquatic & Wellness Center offers forty classes a week for supervised conditioning and strengthening, including both warm and cool water aerobics, yoga, step, and ball classes. With approval from Dr. Warnock, a free week of rehabilitation services is offered to bariatric patients, with a personal assessment to develop a program tailored to each person's fitness level, goals, and precautions. North Texas Rehab Center offers a comfortable, professional environment equipped for the unique needs of bariatric patients. Knowledgeable exercise technicians are always accessible to give assistance. 
   
 
North Texas Rehabilitation Center
1005 Midwestern Parkway
Wichita Falls, TX 76302		 Phone: (940) 322-0771

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Patient preferences and medical insurance requirements may determine which facility will best meet individual needs. Exercise is key to obtaining the best results after surgery. These facilities are economical and easily accessible. Within weeks, patients can reach a desirable level of exercise tolerance, be prepared to return to work, and gain confidence to carry on in a less structured fitness setting close to home. Similar arrangements can be made for patients outside the Wichita Falls area.
 
   
 

 

 

 
   
 

The Rathgeber Hospitality House is an economical, comfortable bed-and-bath facility designed to provide family members a place to stay while a loved one is hospitalized at during bariatric surgery. It is conveniently located just across the street from the hospital at 1615 12th Street, and a shuttle bus is always available to take family members both to and from the hospital.

The Rathgeber Hospitality House is funded through volunteer donations. A minimum donation of $35 is requested per night for each room. Guest rooms can accomodate up to 4 people. Patients and immediate family members of patients from outside the Wichita Falls city limits are the primary service group. Dr. Warnock customarily requests that patients from out-of-town plan on staying at Rathgeber a couple days following surgery until he releases them to leave the area and return home.

  
     
  Also, Healthsouth provides free transportation from Rathgeber to Healthsouth so patients can begin physical rehabilitation and maximize their recovery stay. To reserve a room or for additional information, contact the Rathgeber Hospitality House at (940) 764-2400. Alternatively visit their website.