Bariatric Surgery Center

If you are severely overweight and have tried everything imaginable to lose weight through conventional means such as dieting, exercise, behavior therapy, and/or drugs, but have been unsuccessful in your attempts, then weight loss surgery may be right for you. Surgical Associates at Virginia Hospital Center offer a comprehensive Weight Loss Surgery Program designed to provide the highest quality of care to patients suffering from obesity and all of its associated health conditions.

Our Weight Loss Surgery Program is a well-structured program with a multidisciplinary team of physicians and health care professionals committed to helping you achieve wellness through weight loss. Our program includes, in addition to surgical weight loss procedures, a number of other critical elements to help ensure a successful long-term weight loss, such as:

• Nutritional evaluation and education
• Psychological evaluation and support
• Body fat analysis
• Support group meetings
• Medically supervised weight loss program
• Exercise and health promotion programs
• Specialty services thoroughly familiar with the obese patient's needs (sleep medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, endocrinology, cardiology, plastic surgery, etc.)
• 24-hour access to our bariatric surgeons

We favor restrictive weight loss surgeries including adjustable gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy. These restrictive weight loss surgeries work by reducing – or restricting - the capacity of the stomach to hold food, thus allowing you to eat less and feel full with very small meals. Unlike malabsorptive procedures (such as gastric bypass), there is virtually no risk of developing deficiencies in vitamins, proteins, etc.

If you are considering surgical weight loss, Surgical Associates at Virginia Hospital Center should be your center of choice. We treat patients from the entire Washington, DC metropolitan area as well as Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Our surgeons are experts in the surgical management of obesity and will treat you with dignity, respect and compassion. Our kind and caring staff go to great lengths to make you feel comfortable and will always make your health and well-being their priority.

• Weight Loss Surgery Booklet
• Bariatric Focus: Our monthly newsletter

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