Sibley Center for
Weight Loss Surgery
Everyone at the Sibley Center for Weight Loss Surgery is here to help you with all aspects of achieving healthy weight loss through bariatric surgery. Our comprehensive weight loss surgery program includes much more than surgical care. It provides extensive education and coordination of appointments for everything from pre-surgery evaluations to scheduling surgery and post-surgical follow-up visits. We also coordinate your long-term support care including regularly scheduled meetings with our dedicated nutritionist and physical trainer who specialize in optimizing weight loss outcomes in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia area.
What "Comprehensive" Includes at Sibley Memorial Hospital
Comprehensive means more at the Sibley Center for Weight Loss Surgery than anywhere else in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia area.
Comprehensive means that all the services you may need are available here at the Sibley Center for Weight Loss Surgery. This includes education about the risks and benefits of Lap-Band ® and gastric bypass obesity surgery; pre-surgical evaluations such as psychological and sleep studies; surgery and post-surgical care; nutritional and exercise evaluations, as well as ongoing long-term weight loss surgery patient support.
Comprehensive means we have a dedicated weight loss surgery team including a highly respected bariatric surgeon, a bariatric surgery clinical coordinator, a dietitian, an exercise trainer, psychologists, a scheduler and an insurance specialist who are committed to making this weight loss surgery process as effortless as possible.
Comprehensive means one convenient, comfortable location. The Sibley Center for Weight Loss Surgery on the fourth floor of the Sibley Renaissance building is light-filled, and comfortable. You can work with any of our dedicated team members without ever leaving the campus of Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC.
Comprehensive means we're with you every step of the way. In fact, long-term support for weight loss surgery patients is a hallmark of our program.
Comprehensive also means that we do more than offer all these services and support for bariatric surgery patients—we also schedule and coordinate them for you. From your first information session, through education, pre-surgical evaluations, surgery and all your long-term follow-up support appointments, you will enjoy the cheerful efficient help and support of our scheduler and weight loss surgery program coordinator. We've gathered all the services related to successful patient long-term outcomes for weight loss surgery in one convenient and welcoming place. And we handle the scheduling so you can focus on achieving your weight loss goal and creating the life you want.
We're With You Every Step Of The Way
Ongoing long-term support, motivation and monitoring after bariatric surgery are crucial to successful patient outcomes and are built into our weight loss surgery program. We provide follow-up in one-to-one sessions and through monthly weight loss surgery support groups. Regular follow-up sessions may include physical training and nutritional counseling, so you can modify your program and move forward with the help of a professional physical trainer and a certified nutritionist-both of whom are also weight loss surgery specialists. You can expect the high level of medical excellence, human caring and warmth that are the hallmarks of Sibley quality care.
Call us at (202) 370-6565 to schedule an appointment and learn more about weight loss surgery.