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Gillette coal miner loses 118 pounds

By Kristy Bleizeffer Jun 29, 2017

Since his weight-loss surgery in April 2016, Travis Bennett, a coal miner at North Antelope Rochelle Mine, has lost about 118 pounds. He reached more than 345 pounds before researching weight-loss surgery, but found Kevin Helling, M.D., and the state’s only accredited center for bariatric surgery just up the road – at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. He’s hoping to get off his blood-pressure medicine soon, and spends more time in Wyoming’s mountains fishing and camping now that he can venture off the beaten path.

Ask the Experts: How do I prevent ‘thrower’s shoulder?’

By Kristy Bleizeffer May 10, 2017

For “overhead” athletes – think pitchers, tennis players, track and field athletes and volleyball players – shoulder pain can seriously dampen performance on the field and affect comfort off of it.

Readers Choice Awards: Wyoming Medical Center named Wyoming’s Best Hospital (and more)

By Kristy Bleizeffer May 3, 2017

We are proud to be voted Wyoming’s Best Hospital by the voters who matters the most: You. The Casper Star-Tribune’s Readers Choice Awards were released today, and we have a whole lot to be thankful for.

Wyoming Medical Center achieves national accreditation for weight-loss surgery

By Kristy Bleizeffer Mar 9, 2017

Wyoming Medical Center has been accredited as a Comprehensive Bariatric Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

Heart Month: Hospital implements new CPR training program to keep skills sharp

By Kristy Bleizeffer Feb 1, 2017

To help improve patient care and safety, Wyoming Medical Center is implementing the Resuscitation Quality Improvement® Program, a new training approach to maintaining CPR skills in the healthcare setting. We are the first hospital in the state to implement the program.

Is weight-loss surgery right for you?

By Kevin Helling, M.D. Jan 18, 2017

Wyoming Medical Center's Weight Managment Program offers a team approach to losing weight and keeping it off. But when non-surgical weight loss efforts have failed, consultation with a bariatric surgeon may be beneficial. Multiple surgical options exist and no one single operation is perfect for everyone.

Why does my shoulder hurt at night? 7 questions with orthopedic surgeon Lee Stowell, M.D.

By Kristy Bleizeffer Oct 6, 2016

Summer Safety Series | Protect against sports-related injuries with good form and conditioning

By Kristy Bleizeffer Jul 8, 2016

National Nurses Week: Why I am a nurse

By Kristy Bleizeffer May 9, 2016

"I started working at Wyoming Medical Center when I was 17, and I was NOT going to be a nurse —ever. I had no interest in any way. Twenty-four years later, I can't imagine doing anything different." — Jennifer Gallager, R.N.

WMC By the Numbers: 1,218 employees, 37,316 ER visits and 1,154 babies born

By Eric Valdez Mar 31, 2016

While you can’t measure a hospital by numbers alone, we’re pretty proud of those we put up in 2015.

Meet our Docs: Dr. Lee Warren is an inventor, author, podcaster and neurosurgeon

By Kristy Bleizeffer Feb 23, 2016

W. Lee Warren Jr., M.D., is a surgeon who wears many caps. He’s a neurosurgeon, sure, but it’s not all he is. Not by a long shot.

Meet Our Doctors

When you choose Wyoming Medical Center, you choose Wyoming's most experienced home-grown surgeons

By Kristy Bleizeffer Nov 10, 2015

Dr. James Anderson's 'enduring legacy' for his colleagues, patients and Wyoming

By Carol Solie, M.D. Oct 13, 2015

Our Patients

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A two-specialist approach can improve patient outcomes

By Kristy Bleizeffer Oct 9, 2015

Meet our Docs: Kevin Helling, M.D., offers advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery

By Kristy Bleizeffer Aug 20, 2015

Dr. Helling completed his subspecialty training in advanced laparoscopic and weight-loss surgery at Harvard University. He also serves as medical director of bariatric surgery at Wyoming Medical Center, which offers two surgical options for weight loss.

Meet Our Doctors

Meet our Docs: Fellowship-trained shoulder surgeon Dr. Lee Stowell will keep you in the game

By Kristy Bleizeffer Aug 4, 2015

Halfway through medical school, R. Lee Stowell, M.D., realized he was drawn to the operating room. Here was a specialty of medicine where the doctors not only had to understand pathology, anatomy and physiology, but they had to be able to do something about whatever ailed their patients.