SSM Health Weight Management & Metabolic Center Mt. Vernon

SSM Health Weight Management Services comprehensive weight-loss program has the ultimate goal of helping people live better quality, healthier and longer lives. The program addresses all of a patient’s healthy weight management needs encompassing surgical and non-surgical options, diet and nutritional education, exercise training referrals, and support groups. 

SSM Health Weight Management Services strives to improve a patient’s health by helping achieve lasting weight loss that reduces life-threatening risk factors, improves self-esteem, and enhances daily living. SSM Health Weight Management Services offers weight-loss surgeries including Sleeve Gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, and revision surgeries as well as non-surgical options.

SSM Health Weight Management Services in Southern Illinois holds a “center of excellence” national accreditation. The “center of excellence” designation is granted by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

SSM Health Weight Management Services is recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois with a Blue Distinction® Centers+ for Bariatric Surgery designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated healthcare facilities that show a commitment to delivering high quality patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were developed with input from the medical community and leading accreditation and quality organizations.