A Lifetime Commitment
Your Commitment to Surgical Weight Loss
The patient plays a key role in the success of weight loss surgery. Weight loss surgery is a tool. Maintaining weight loss requires dedication. Following the suggestions made by your surgeon, nurse and dietitian will greatly increase your success. The next step is a lifetime of exercise, sensible diet and taking vitamin supplements.
This commitment will bring unlimited benefits. The most important being the elimination or vast reduction of your obesity and obesity-related medical problems.
Our Commitment to You: A Team Approach
The Jefferson Abington Hospital Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery's comprehensive program offers the lifetime support that a patient needs in order to remain dedicated and attain long-term health and happiness.
Morbid obesity has multiple factors, and we address it with a multi-disciplinary approach that utilizes a team of experts. These include:
- Surgeons
- Nurses
- Physician's assistants
- Psychiatrist
- Nutritionists
- Physical therapist
- Consultants such as cardiologist, pulmonologist, vascular surgeon