Surgery
Surgical Weight Loss
The Surgical Weight Loss Program at Emerson Hospital, established in 2005, is a comprehensive clinical approach with a track record of safely helping individuals who are morbidly obese to achieve their weight loss goals. Our patients receive the personalized, one-on-one care and support that lead to long-term success and a return to health.
The surgical weight loss program at 
Emerson Hospital is accredited as a Level 2b facility by the Bariatric Surgery
Center Network (BSCN) Accreditation
Program of the American College of
Surgeons (ACS). This designation means
that Emerson has met the essential criteria
that ensures it is fully capable of supporting
a bariatric surgery care program and that
its institutional performance meets the
requirements outlined by the ACS BSCN
Accreditation Program.
Surgery is the tool that helps individuals lose weight and maintain their weight loss. Emerson’s Surgical Weight Loss Program offers two options for minimally invasive surgery—gastric bypass and gastric banding (also known as lap-band surgery). Each is proven to be safe and effective.
Our three experienced surgeons have performed more than 700 weight loss procedures. The program’s rate of complications is very low—a sign of technical quality, as well as a commitment to high quality patient care, education and support for individuals, from their first appointment through their follow-up care after surgery. The program’s team, including a nurse practitioner, mental health practitoner and dietitian, provide all the guidance and assistance a person might need. The first step is to attend an free information session.
Emerson Hospital, an acute care medical center located in Concord, Massachusetts, is the perfect setting for area residents who seek weight loss surgery. In addition to the team of providers, patients appreciate Emerson’s convenient location, which brings added ease to attending medical appointments, support group meetings and the hospitals highly regarded Health & Wellness Classes.
For questions, please call us at 978-287-3532.
