Expert Medical and Surgical Options for Weight Loss
Loyola Medicine’s Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care offers expert medical and surgical options for weight loss. Designated as Comprehensive Center by The American College of Surgeons, Loyola offers you the expertise of highly skilled surgeons, medical weight loss doctors, nutritionists and psychologists who draw on the translational research of a nationally recognized academic medical institution.
Loyola weight loss professionals understand the challenges of living with excess weight and the challenges of losing it. If you have tried and failed repeatedly, you may be a weight loss candidate, and Loyola can provide you with expert medical help.
Loyola is proud to offer you both medical and surgical options for your weight loss reduction. Our multidisciplinary team of professionals is nationally recognized for its weight loss program and success rates, and is dedicated to partnering with you to help you reach your weight loss goals.
Your commitment to our program is critical to your success, and Loyola will provide expert medical care and support for your individualized weight loss plan.
Specialized Services
Loyola provides weight-loss treatments you can trust in state-of-the-art medical facilities. Our entire multidisciplinary team works within the same clinic setting so you can see multiple specialists on the same day, including:
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Bariatrician
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Surgeon
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Nutritionist
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Psychologist
Loyola is also committed to helping you navigate the nuances of insurance. If bariatric surgery is the best treatment option for you, Loyola will work with you to establish the necessary plan prior to your surgical treatment.
In most cases you will be required to spend anywhere from one to six months in a supervised medical weight loss program prior to your surgery.
What is Bariatric Surgery and Medical Weight Loss?
Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that encompasses the causes, prevention and treatment of obesity. Bariatrics includes dietary changes, exercise and behavioral therapy approaches to weight loss, as well as the use of weight loss drugs and surgery.
Medical weight loss at Loyola includes a physician-directed weight loss program based on scientific principles that target the root cause of your weight gain and excess weight. We work with you to achieve and sustain a long-term healthy weight.
Bariatric surgery includes a variety of surgical procedures performed on people who are obese. With bariatric surgery, weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach, changing hormones that affect your metabolism, and sometimes by resecting and re-routing the small intestines to a small stomach pouch.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health recommends bariatric surgery for individuals with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 40, or for people with a BMI of 35 or higher coupled with weight-related medical conditions.
Getting Started with Loyola
In most cases, the following steps are completed when you partner with Loyola to reach your weight loss goals:
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Register for one of our free online weight loss seminars
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Complete our comprehensive patient questionnaire
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Call our expert support staff for all of your insurance questions and approvals
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Meet with our multidisciplinary team of experts to devise a plan specific to your needs
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Initiate steps to achieve your personalized plan, which may include a medical weight loss program, bariatric surgery or both
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Complete all necessary follow-up care and monitoring
Weight Loss Options at Loyola
Loyola is committed to designing a weight loss treatment plan that is right for you. Whether you are a candidate for a medical weight loss program or bariatric surgery, our multidisciplinary team will work with you to develop an individualized plan specific to your needs.
In consultation with our medical experts, you will make the final decision on the treatment program that meet your needs, and it may include:
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Biliopancreative Diversion
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Endoscopic procedure following gastric bypass surgery
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Gastric Bypass
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Gastric Sleeve procedure
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Medical weight loss program
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Revision/Correction Surgery
