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Our program comprises of a team of fellowship-trained surgeons focused on delivering exemplary patient-centered care. We are supported by an outstanding multidisciplinary team of nurses, nurse practitioners and endocrinologists. We have a spectacular hospital system with multiple easy-access clinic locations, state-of-the-art operating rooms and an all-new postoperative floor with private rooms and dedicated nurses. It will be a privilege and honor to have you choose us as your team. We look forward to meeting you.
Chair, Division of Bariatric and GI Surgery
Accreditation matters
VCU Health and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU are accredited as a Level 1 Center by the American College of Surgeons’ Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program to care for adults and adolescents with clinically severe obesity. We are the only MBSAQIP-accredited center in Virginia to offer weight loss surgery to adolescents and one of the few in the United States to offer both adult and adolescent bariatric surgery.
We are also a Comprehensive Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Center of Distinction, Center of Excellence (COE) by United Healthcare, COE by Aetna, and an Aetna Institute of Quality®.
Learn more about the Aetna Institutes of Quality® (IOQ) network.
