Abbott Northwestern Hospital Bariatric Center
Piper Building
913 E 26th Street, Suite 401
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-863-7501
For more about our weight loss surgery program,
call 612-863-7501.
Abbott Northwestern's Bariatric Center has been making a difference in people's lives for more than 30 years. Our dedicated, experienced surgeons and staff are committed to your personal journey of achieving significant weight loss through a surgical option that is right for you.
Nationally recognized as a "Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence" by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Abbott Northwestern's Bariatric Center is dedicated to helping patients achieve significant weight loss, which can lead to a healthier, more active lifestyle.
View some of the services provided by the Bariatric Center.
Patient story
Small victories
For most people, having to wear someone else's clothes after getting caught in a rainstorm would be an annoyance. For Jack Holmes, fitting into his younger brother's clothes is a small victory.
Allina Bariatric Centers
We're part of Allina Bariatric Centers, a network that offers choice of procedure, surgeon and location to people considering weight loss surgery.
To learn more, visit allina.com/WeightLossSurgery.
To learn more about our weight loss surgery program,
call 612-863-7501.
When a person has been diagnosed with clinically severe obesity – roughly 100 pounds overweight or have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 – and is unable to lose weight despite repeated attempts at dieting, surgery may be an option.
Your surgical options may include:
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery changes the size of your stomach as well as your ability to absorb calories to help you succeed at long-term weight loss.
Learn more about Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
Small victories
For Jack Holmes, the small victories keep adding up.
For most people, having to wear someone else's clothes after getting caught in a rainstorm would be an annoyance. For Jack Holmes, fitting into his younger and always thinner brother's clothes counted as a small victory.
That happened last summer, three years after he had gastric bypass surgery.
When Holmes played high school football more than four decades ago, he weighed 260 pounds. "It just kept going up from there," he says.
By the time he had the surgery at age 61, he weighed 375 pounds, had two artificial hips and was considering knee replacement surgery.
"I had tried every diet in the book. I would lose 60 or 70 pounds and gain it back," he says.
When he lost his sister to a massive heart attack, Holmes decided he needed to consider weight loss surgery.
He began by attending the Introduction to Weight Loss informational session.
"I was so determined that I started losing weight right after the class, partly because of what I learned there. One of the biggest things I learned was to simply put my fork down and enjoy chewing my food," he says.
Holmes was able to have laparoscopic surgery, which means his surgeon used special instruments to do the surgery with several small incisions.
"The surgery was unbelievable. I went in on a Thursday morning for surgery, walked out of the hospital at noon on Friday and was back at work on Monday," Holmes says.
Since the surgery, Holmes has lost 150 pounds, and the small victories keep adding up: hunting, playing 18 holes of golf and crawling around on the floor with his grandchildren.
"The important thing to know about weight loss surgery is that it isn't a quick fix. It's a tool," he adds. "People who learn to use it as a tool will be successful."
