Welcome
At The Jewish Hospital Center for Weight Loss Surgery, we understand the considerations and choices you’re facing as you embark on your weight loss journey. Our team of surgeons, dietitians, counselors and support staff are here to assist you every step of the way.
Perhaps you’re considering surgery to help you sleep or breathe better. Maybe you want to walk, shop and live your life free of the restrictions of excess weight. Or it could be that your weight is just keeping you from living your life the way you want to live it. No matter what the reason, let The Jewish Hospital Center for Weight Loss Surgery help you.
The goal of weight loss surgery is to live better, healthier and longer. This surgery is one of several tools to help reclaim your life. Your ultimate success depends on strict adherence to the recommended dietary, exercise and lifestyle changes. Let our experienced team help you find the way to a more active and healthy life.
“We enjoy very much giving people back their lives. Watching them re-enter society, the work force and the lives of their families. Nothing makes us happier than when a patient 12-18 months out from surgery drops by the office to show us the new person they've discovered. We take great joy with them as they show off their new lives, but we are most satisfied with the improvements in their health we've helped them achieve.”
- Elliott Fegelman, M.D., FACS
Surgeons, The Jewish Hospital Center for Weight Loss Surgery
About the Hospital 
Those who choose The Jewish Hospital Center for Weight Loss Surgery will have the procedure performed at The Jewish Hospital in Kenwood. This facility has the state-of-the-art equipment to meet your surgeon’s needs. Our patients are cared for by registered nurses who are well-experienced in the care of bariatric patients. Gastric bypass patients average a two- to three-day hospital stay, and LAP-BAND patients stay overnight and go home the morning after surgery.
The Jewish Hospital, which was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® by Solucient, the nation's leading source of health care information products, provides patients with world-class services in the suburbs of Cincinnati. Here are some of the amenities offered to patients and their families:
- A cafeteria serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. The hospital also serves beverages and snacks at Lobby Latte.
- A gift shop that offers a wide selection of unique gift items, greeting cards, books, magazines, stationery, plants, cosmetics, jewelry and toiletries.
- Free visitor parking is available in the garage next to the hospital
- Comfortable visitors lounges are located in the lobby and the surgery and emergency room waiting areas.
