The Chicago Center For Bariatric Surgery at Vanguard Westlake Hospital has been designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence® by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The Chicago Center for Bariatric Surgery provides patients suffering from morbid obesity with the treatment and support they need to lose weight and keep it off. Surgical options include Chicago Gastric Bypass Surgery, Chicago Lap-Band Surgery, ChicagoSingle Incision Laparoscopic (SILS) Chicago Lap-Band Surgery and Chicago Gastric Sleeve Surgery.

The Chicago Bariatric Surgery Center at Vanguard Westlake Hospital serves the Greater Chicagoland area including Bensenville Bariatric Surgery, Berkeley Bariatric Surgery, Elmhurst Bariatric Surgery, Elmwood Park Bariatric Surgery, Franklin Park Bariatric Surgery, Hillside Bariatric Surgery, Maywood Bariatric Surgery, Melrose Park Bariatric Surgery, Northlake Bariatric Surgery, River Grove Bariatric Surgery, Stone Park Bariatric Surgery, Westchester Bariatric Surgery, Cook County Bariatric Surgery, DuPage County Bariatric Surgery and Metro Chicago Bariatric Surgery with close proximity to O'Hare & Midway Airports.

I always had confidence in everyone around me, now it is amazing the amount of self-confidence I have in me. As a 47-year-old mother of two, AS credits The Chicago Center for Bariatric Surgery at Vanguard Westlake Hospital for helping her lose weight and learn how to eat healthy. AS lost nearly half her body weight—almost 150 pounds—and went from a size 26 to a size 6. She made the decision to get bariatric surgery after her mother died of pancreatic cancer. She knew she needed to get healthy so she could be there for her own daughters. "Before weight-loss surgery, I was on blood pressure medication, three medications for diabetes, pain medication for arthritis in my knees and I used a CPAP machine for sleep apnea," she says. "Within 30 days of having surgery, I was off all my medications."