Health care
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
Health Care Edition
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Health Care Edition! It’s that time of year again where we here at Community Impact dig into the health care stories in your backyard. In this edition, you’ll nd a story about Methodist Celina Medical Center, which opened earlier this year, and the rst services it has seen since opening. Other stories in the edition include a look at all our hospitals and some of the updates they are seeing. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission. Happy reading!
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Cook Children’s Prosper features bariatric surgery program Program undergoes a six-month weight loss program before they’re eligible for surgery. A bariatric coordinator facilitates the patients through the program. Patients will have several visits, not just with the bariatric program, but with Cook Children’s nephrology, cardiology, or gastroenterology departments, depending on the patient’s needs, Dr. Bowen-Jallow said. Recent studies show that bariatric surgery Lack of physical activity Contributing factors Obesity can be attributed to genetics and environmental factors as well as other health behaviors that contribute to excess weight gain, including:
Prosper’s Cook Children’s Medical Center houses an adolescent bariatric surgery program which has attracted patients from across Texas. The Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program was started at Prosper’s Cook Children’s Medical Center in April 2024 and has seen 158 adolescents served in the weight loss program with 15 patients undergoing surgery, said Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow, a board certi ed pediatric surgeon and director of the bariatric program. Cook Children’s program is one of seven accredited programs across the country, she said. On average, patients drive two hours roundtrip to Cook Children’s in Prosper for the program. “We’re really on the cutting edge,” Dr. Bow- en-Jallow said. “We know that we are continuing to grow and we’re excited to be able to do that in this community.” About the program Every patient in the Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
can help reverse up to 90% of hypertension and diabetes in patients, according to Cook Children’s. Diving in deeper Patients who qualify for Cook Children’s pro- gram must have a body mass index of 40 or greater or have a BMI of 35 with one or more diseases. This includes but is not limited to: prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, hypertension, fatty liver disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),
Unhealthy eating patterns
Not enough sleep or poor quality sleep
Too much TV, computer, video games or other screen time
Long-term stress
dyslipidemia, and pseudotumor cerebri. Patients must also be 13-18 years of age.
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