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The Weight Management Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center provides comprehensive care for the patient with severe obesity. A team consisting of surgeons, a nurse coordinator, a nutritionist, a psychologist, and an exercise physiologist adopt a multidisciplinary approach to weight loss, including both medical and surgical options.
The Weight Management team evaluates each patient case individually to determine the best options for treatment. The goal is to help patients achieve long term success in adopting a healthier lifestyle by achieving significant weight loss and reduction in the co-morbidities associated with severe obesity. The recommendations for medical or surgical management are based on a patient’s current health status. |
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In order to be considered as a candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery, patients must:
- have made multiple attempts to lose weight, including structured programs through nationally recognized organizations or physician supervised programs
- weigh at least 100 pounds over their ideal body weight with a Body Mass Index of >35 with co-morbidities or >40 with no current co-morbidities
- be motivated to undergo a change in lifestyle and eating habits
- have the approval of the primary care physician managing the patient’s medical conditions
- be willing to work collaboratively with a team of healthcare providers interested in their successful journey to a healthier lifestyle
- be between 18-55 years old
About the Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, is an integrated health care system that operates 1,298 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers.
The Medical Center has 20 subsidiary or affiliate hospitals and conducts 87 satellite clinics throughout the region. It provides a continuum of care that includes primary care centers, outpatient rehabilitation, dialysis centers, home health care, and long-term nursing centers.
Although its primary service area is a 26-county region in northwestern North Carolina and southwest Virginia, the Medical Center in the past year has served patients from 91 North Carolina counties, 39 additional states and several foreign countries.
The Medical Center's component institutions carry out a joint mission of patient care, education, research and community service. The partnership includes three major members: Wake Forest University Health Sciences, North Carolina Baptist Hospital , and Wake Forest University Physicians. |