SY Aesthetics, a cosmetic center that aims to bring about long-lasting beauty through the holistic treatment of patients, opened a state-of-the-art surgery facility in Middletown on June 16.
Sitting on the Community Campus off Mohagen Avenue, the 5,500-square-foot facility contains two new operating rooms, each equipped with anesthesia machines and flat-screen monitors.
The monitored pre-operative suite can accommodate three patients, as does the recovery unit.
Available surgical procedures include face and neck lifts, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, liposuction, and tummy tucks.
“What you are seeing is just the beginning of a journey that we are going to walk through the next 10 or 30 years,” SY Aesthetics CEO Dr. Jingduan Yang said at the grand opening ceremony. “We are building a world destination for health, beauty, and happiness.”
Yang, a fifth-generation Chinese medicine practitioner and board-certified psychiatrist, developed his holistic approach to health over decades of practice in Eastern and Western cultures; it encompasses the physical, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of patients.
This holistic view of health is at the foundation of SY Aesthetics, where plastic surgeries, nonsurgical procedures, nutritional guidance, psychological support, and lifestyle medicine converge to help each individual patient achieve long-lasting happiness and beauty.
Dr. Jeffrey Yager, the medical director of SY Aesthetics, said that he was excited to apply his medical expertise on a whole new level at the center.
A graduate of the medical school at Columbia University, Yager was the chief resident in plastic surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center before opening his own plastic surgery practice in Manhattan.
“It excites me to offer more to patients and make sure that they are happy,” Yager said. “Cosmetic surgery is beauty, but it is also happiness—you are not getting beautiful to be beautiful; you are getting beautiful because it makes you happy.
“If your nose is crooked, I can straighten it. But if your life is out of balance and crooked, I can’t fix that in the operating room.”
Yager said that his deepened understanding of beauty led him to join Yang’s team at SY Aesthetics, which he said has the potential to change the global paradigm of cosmetic surgery.
His Manhattan office serves as a satellite facility for SY Aesthetics.
Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano congratulated the SY Aesthetics team on the grand opening and highlighted the redevelopment of the Community Campus in recent years.
The campus was formerly the site of one of the largest employers in the area—the State Homeopathic Hospital—whose gradual downsizing and final closure in the early 2000s left dozens of buildings on more than 200 acres abandoned.
In 2015, Fei Tian College in Middletown started purchasing and renovating the former hospital buildings, followed by Northern Medical Center, with whom SY Aesthetics shares a building.
“We are just thankful for your investment and thankful for the friendship that we formed over the years, and we are certainly looking forward to many years of expansion,” DeStefano said.
New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and Brandon Holdridge, a constituent services specialist from the office of New York state Sen. James Skoufis, also attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
