Success Stories

Susan Fulton

For Susan, she knew it was time to lose weight when she had trouble buckling her seatbelt and wasn’t doing many of the other activities she enjoyed. Learn how her life has changed since having weight loss surgery. Watch her story.

Meickle Oswald

Weighing nearly 400 pounds, doctors told Mecikle she would be dead within five years if she didn’t lose weight.  Learn how she came to the decision to have weight loss surgery and how her life has changed since having surgery. Watch her story

Charlotte Reshaped Her Body-And Her Life-With Weight-Loss Surgery

In June 2009, Charlotte Cramer visited Hawaii, where she hiked and snorkeled with her husband and daughters. It was a high point for the Hudson woman who, at her peak weight of 303 pounds, found it difficult just to walk down the street.

Cramer had weight-loss surgery at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in August 2008. The results were dramatic. Since then, Cramer has lost 130 pounds. She is healthier today than she's ever been. "The surgery and lifestyle changes I've made are the most phenomenal things I've ever done for myself," Cramer raves.

Patients having weight-loss surgery at OSF Saint Francis lose an average of 60 to 250 pounds over one to two years, says Melinda Lange, RN, BSN, Program Coordinator for the OSF Surgical Weight Loss Center of Excellence.

OSF Saint Francis is certified as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The program received the designation by providing comprehensive, high-quality care and maintaining excellent short- and long-term outcomes.

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