Supporting Our Patients

Weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight is complex and individual ...

As we continue to grow and expand both our medical practice and weight loss program we understand, especially for my patients who have been with me for years (some twenty!), that there are and will be many changes to our practice which for some people can be unsettling. Our goal with these changes are to offer you more and more support in many different areas and would like to discuss these changes and services with you. For more information please check out our "event tab" and "chat room" on the website www.spdiet.com

We want to assure everyone that we are constantly thinking about how to meet everyone's individual needs and address all possible aspects of meeting and maintaining your weight loss goals. We had a patient who felt like the follow up visits, although they said worked to help her continue to lose weight, were a bit "impersonal" as she saw many new faces each week. I want everyone to know that for those of you who need and want more time and attention we offer that service to each of you as an extended "free" visit with our Regisitered Dietation. This extended visit is offered to you as often as weekly in addition to your weekly follow up visits. Our follow up visits will be about 5 - 10 minutes focusing on specific aspects of the program, we will check your bp, weight, answer any questions you have and help keep you motiviated.

Other services we offer include (we try to continually evaluate and add new services to support our patients so please let us know if there is a service you would like to see offered as part of our program):

*weekly follow up visits on site and now virtual to make sure you are able to stay focused on vacation, when you're out of town, and/or if you are out of the area
*extended one-on-one visits with our Registered Dietition (RD)
*monthly health and wellness seminars run by our Fitness consultant and RD
*free exercise classes Tuesday & Thursday evenings (meet at the office) from 6pm - 7:30pm
*Once a month group walk at Burke Lake Park
*Group walks NOW on Monday & Wednesdays at 6:00am (for early birds)
*Starting in September group counseling sessions!!!
**Giving Back** In February 2010 we are offering a Free Community Program based on financial need and health criteria - We are working now to partner with community businesses so that 5 individuals a month may participate in our "Weight Loss & Work Ready" program. We hope to have businesses offer job training and internships for those individuals in the program who are out of work.

In order to offer and support these services, continue to offer new services, and keep your in office wait time to a minium we must continue to hire train, and cross-train our staff. We appreciate your patience as new staff members are being trained and feel free to always request to see myself, Donna, our PA, or the acting PA/NP or MD on site when you are in the office.

Also if you or any of your family members are looking for new opportunities please contact us as we have a few open positions in our office to include front desk support, nursing, and field sales.

Lastly, I want to thank each and everyone of you for helping us fine-tune our program to esnure that we are providing the very best weight loss program in the entire area. Your feedback/suggestions etc are VERY important to us. Please e-mail us or call us at 703-866-4144.