Bariatric Surgeon Serving Cuyahoga County Ohio

A County Covered From Both Sides

Cuyahoga County does not have one center of gravity. Cleveland sits in the middle, inner-ring suburbs wrap around its east side, and a separate cluster of communities runs west toward the lakefront. Kara’s Weight Loss & Wellness is built around that shape instead of around a single downtown location. The Lyndhurst office sits on Mayfield Road on the east side, and the Westlake office sits on Center Ridge Road on the west side, with the city itself and University Circle in between.

That two-office layout follows how far a patient is willing to drive for a preoperative visit, a nutrition consult, or a monthly weight loss check-in before work. A patient in Euclid or the Heights can reach Lyndhurst faster than they could find parking downtown. A patient in Bay Village or Fairview Park can reach Westlake just as quickly. Dr. Karas operates from both offices, so care on the east side and care on the west side run through the same surgeon and the same process.

Most Cuyahoga County residents end up closer to one of these two offices than they expect. Someone living in Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, or the eastern edge of Cleveland is typically a short drive from Lyndhurst. Someone in Rocky River, North Olmsted, or the western edge of the city lines up with Westlake. The middle of Cleveland, including downtown and University Circle, sits almost exactly between the two, which the map makes clearer than any list of neighborhood names could.

This matters because bariatric care is not a single appointment. It involves a surgical consultation, insurance work, preoperative testing, the procedure itself, and months of follow-up visits afterward. Doing all of that from one office at one edge of the county would mean asking half of Cuyahoga County to drive across it for every step. The two-office structure keeps that trip short no matter which side a patient starts from.

Why Cuyahoga County Patients Choose This Practice

Patients who grew up in this county already know these roads. Mayfield Road threads through the eastern suburbs past the Lyndhurst office, and Center Ridge Road runs through the western suburbs past the Westlake office. Choosing a surgeon who already sits on one of those roads, rather than off a highway exit an hour away, removes one more variable from an already complicated decision.

Dr. Karas is a bariatric surgeon, not a general surgeon who takes on bariatric cases occasionally. The surgical care tied to the Lyndhurst office takes place at Legacy Surgery Center in Lyndhurst. The surgical care tied to the Westlake office takes place at Big Creek Surgery Center and Southwest General, both in Middleburg Heights. Patients on either side of the county have a named, local facility behind their procedure, one they can look into ahead of time.

Medical weight loss and GLP-1 medication management run at both locations too, for patients who want a path that does not start with surgery. The same is true of endoscopic weight loss procedures and revision surgery, for patients who had bariatric surgery years ago, somewhere else, and now need a second look. None of that changes depending on which office a Cuyahoga County patient walks into.

Procedures Available at Both Offices

Both offices offer the same range of care, because that consistency is the point of running two locations inside one county instead of one location in the middle of it. Choosing the office closer to home does not mean choosing a smaller menu of options.

• Sleeve gastrectomy
• Gastric bypass
• Revision bariatric surgery
• Medical weight loss and GLP-1 medication management
• Endoscopic weight loss procedures

Which procedure fits a given patient depends on health history and goals, worked out directly with Dr. Karas, not on which side of the county that patient happens to live.

Getting Here

Lyndhurst Office

Surgical care tied to this office takes place at Legacy Surgery Center in Lyndhurst.

Westlake Office

Surgical care tied to this office takes place at Big Creek Surgery Center and Southwest General, both in Middleburg Heights.

Call (216) 377-7257 to reach either office directly.

As a general rule, patients on the east side of Cuyahoga County, including Cleveland Heights, Euclid, Mayfield Heights, and the neighborhoods closest to Lake Erie’s eastern shore, tend to find Lyndhurst the shorter trip. Patients on the west side, including Rocky River, Westlake itself, North Olmsted, and Bay Village, tend to find the same true of the Westlake office. Patients living in Cleveland proper, downtown, or University Circle sit close enough to both that the choice usually comes down to convenience that day, not which office is better.

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