Norton Weight Management Patient Support
Norton Weight Management Services offers a personalized and comprehensive approach to care that is as unique as you are. You will have access to therapists, dietitians and support groups that help you deal with the life-changing experience that supervised medical weight loss and weight loss surgery can provide. Our program has years of success and thousands of successful patients. You can count on our expertise and resources to guide you to success.
Checklist
See if you are ready to take the leap and start a medical weight management program or bariatric or weight loss surgery.
Counseling
Norton Weight Management Services offers behavioral health and nutritional counseling to assist you before and after weight loss surgery.
Patient Stories
Learn more about the weight loss journey of some of our patients.
Seminars
After completing the checklist, considerone of our free weekly seminars. Norton Weight Management Services can answer your questions about weight loss surgery.
Transfer of Care
Interested in transferring your weight management care to Norton Weight Management? You do not need to sign up for a bariatric seminar. Click here to get started with our transfer of care patient information packet.
How soon can I leave the hospital after weight loss surgery? How does the day after sound?
How long will you have to stay in the hospital after weight loss surgery? The average is two to five days, but a Louisville doctor is getting most patients home the day after bariatric surgery. […]
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Is there a link between COVID-19 and weight?
Struggling with weight gain during the pandemic? You’re not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, 61% of American adults say they have experienced undesired weight changes, including weight gain, in the last year. In […]
Read Full Story
Weight loss surgery for a medical professional
For some, the choice to have gastric sleeve surgery and then actually go through with it may be a monthslong or yearslong process. Not so for Devin Gehrke, R.N., clinical nurse educator at Norton Women’s […]
Read Full Story
Quality of life improvements after weight-loss surgery
Quality of life after gastric sleeve or gastric bypass surgery can improve significantly and be long-lasting, according to studies of patients before and after weight-loss surgery. In questionnaires filled out before surgery, six months after […]
Read Full Story
A weight management physician discusses 4 popular weight loss drugs
Patients who are overweight or obese potentially can benefit from a medication approved for long-term weight management. Four weight loss medications — Contrave, Qsymia, Saxenda and Xenical — that have been approved since 2012 give […]
Read Full Story
How soon can I leave the hospital after weight loss surgery? How does the day after sound?
How long will you have to stay in the hospital after weight loss surgery? The average is two to five days, but a Louisville doctor is getting most patients home the day after bariatric surgery. […]
Read Full Story
Is there a link between COVID-19 and weight?
Struggling with weight gain during the pandemic? You’re not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, 61% of American adults say they have experienced undesired weight changes, including weight gain, in the last year. In […]
Read Full Story
Weight loss surgery for a medical professional
For some, the choice to have gastric sleeve surgery and then actually go through with it may be a monthslong or yearslong process. Not so for Devin Gehrke, R.N., clinical nurse educator at Norton Women’s […]
Read Full Story
Quality of life improvements after weight-loss surgery
Quality of life after gastric sleeve or gastric bypass surgery can improve significantly and be long-lasting, according to studies of patients before and after weight-loss surgery. In questionnaires filled out before surgery, six months after […]
Read Full Story
A weight management physician discusses 4 popular weight loss drugs
Patients who are overweight or obese potentially can benefit from a medication approved for long-term weight management. Four weight loss medications — Contrave, Qsymia, Saxenda and Xenical — that have been approved since 2012 give […]
Read Full Story
