What are the basic program components?
All of our patients are assessed in a multidisciplinary fashion and will have a physician/surgeon visit followed by a visit with the financial counselor. Our patients are required to attend an educational seminar prior to meeting with the team, in order to better prepare themselves for the office visit. As patients get closer to their surgery date, patients will have completed a preoperative nutritional assessment, and a preoperative psychological evaluation, in addition to a rigorous medical work-up clearance. After surgery, our program provides postoperative nutritional counseling as well as ongoing psychological counseling if indicated. Because lifelong exercise is so important after surgery, as part of the program we have designed both a preoperative exercise evaluation, and two postoperative assessments led by an exercise physiologist. The goal of our program exercise component is to help you plan for ongoing and lifelong postoperative exercise.
