Our Mission
To work with each patient individually to achieve a healthy weight for life.
Our Values
Differentiators – What Sets Synchrony Apart
We understand that no treatment either medical or surgical is of any use without lifelong support and follow-up.
We strive to provide Extraordinary Customer Service through our contact center and dedicated physicians, many of whom are also patients.
We offer Individualized care creating customized plans for each client.
We offer a true comprehensive treatment of obesity in one location.
Synchrony Health Center Chicago – One Place for a Healthy Weight
Most programs only offer a single weight loss method and if you fail their method the only thing they have to offer you is to go through their program again at further cost to you. This method of patient care does not instill confidence in an individual who is struggling to lose weight. Many people lose and regain weight over and over again, creating a sense of increasing desperation.
Synchrony Health Chicago offers only methods, based on the latest research, that have been shown to help people achieve a healthy weight. We do not offer gimmicky weight loss solutions that prey on innocent consumers. We offer comprehensive proven techniques that can assist anyone in reaching their goal of a healthy weight. In most cases, our customized approach uses a combination of methods to achieve success.
We are constantly adding to our list of medical services such that we may have something new for you at any time. At present, our offerings include but are not limited to: screening for metabolic conditions that cause obesity, nutritional evaluation, medications, psychological services and counseling, physical therapy evaluation for calorie burning, etc.
In addition to thorough medical screening and healthy weight programs, Synchrony Health Chicago has extensive experience with the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery. Surgery to assist with weight loss is a personal decision and not for everyone. Many of our patients have already tried medical weight loss programs multiple times and finally found their success with gastric banding.
We do not offer gastric bypass. We believe the best way to achieve a healthy weight is by losing weight in a healthy, natural way. Gastric bypass uses a disease called malabsorption to create weight loss. Gastric bypass surgery can make the number on the scale look better, but it accomplishes this in a very unhealthy way causing your body to waste muscle and bone. Gastric bypass also has a high death rate, causes severe diarrhea, and makes the absorption of medications unreliable and unpredictable. When you reach your healthy weight we want you to be healthy. You don’t want to reach your healthy weight only to be stuck with a chronic disease for the rest of your life.
Synchrony Health Chicago is proud to offer the new ROSE procedure for gastric bypass patients who regain their weight. We are one of the few locations in the country offering this new technology. The most common reason for weight regain after gastric bypass is stretching or dilation of the gastric pouch or stoma (the connection between the gastric pouch and the small intestine). In the past, the treatment was to re-staple the intestines through a large open incision and weeks in the hospital. The new ROSE procedure repairs dilated areas without surgery by stitching through a scope passed through the esophagus (swallowing tube).