{"id":191030,"date":"2026-02-24T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:27:12","slug":"mercy-hospital-southwest-completes-first-robotic-assisted-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191030\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Hospital Southwest completes first robotic-assisted surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Dignity Health is celebrating advancements in health care here in Kern County.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Hospital Southwest recently completed their first robotic-assisted surgical procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The successful use of the new technology brings minimally invasive surgery options to the local community and improves outcomes for patients.<\/p>\n<p>Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Lorenc Malellari joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details about the new technology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Malellari says the robotic-assisted surgical program helps reduce recovery time for patients and leads to shorter hospital stays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Dignity Health is celebrating advancements in health care here in Kern County. Mercy Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-191030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}