Healthy Weight Management Center

1. Basic information: The Suzhou Kowloon Hospital Health Weight Management Center, with the slogan “Light and graceful Suzhou charm—Suzhou-style shaping, lightly winning the future,” integrates advantageous resources inside and outside the hospital, forms a multidisciplinary team, incorporates Suzhou-style health concepts, and provides diverse, standardized weight-management programs with continuous companion-style management. I. Bariatric surgery. Technical focus: concentrating on minimally invasive weight-loss surgery, the center performs procedures such as sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, and introduces robot-assisted technology to improve surgical precision and shorten postoperative recovery. Team support: relying on the high-quality medical resources of the weight-loss team of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, professional services are provided by a bariatric-surgery team with extensive clinical experience and more than 2,000 successfully completed operations. Suitable patients: mainly patients who, after strict medical evaluation, meet surgical indications, such as BMI ≥28 accompanied by related metabolic diseases. II. Medical weight management. Technical focus: providing medical-intervention weight-loss methods, such as gastric bypass stent placement. Team support: the weight-loss team of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University provides technical support; the internal-medicine team oversees the entire process, including stent placement and postoperative monitoring, to ensure standardized intervention. Suitable situations: mainly patients who, after strict medical evaluation, meet the indications, such as BMI ≥26. Health-insurance note: for eligible patients, some diagnostic and treatment items may be used in accordance with regulations under Suzhou medical-insurance policies. III. Endocrinology. Technical focus: for weight problems related to metabolic disorders, individualized metabolic assessment and medication-assisted management are provided. On the basis of the physician’s overall judgment and strict compliance with medical instructions, medications such as tirzepatide and semaglutide may be used in a standardized manner to help regulate internal metabolic mechanisms and support weight control. Team support: a professional endocrine-metabolism team provides diagnosis and treatment and precisely controls medication indications and dosage. Suitable patients: people with endocrine-metabolic disorders, such as insulin resistance or prediabetes/diabetes combined with obesity, or people wishing to lose weight with medication assistance; comprehensive physician evaluation is required to exclude contraindications. IV. Traditional Chinese Medicine. Technical focus: applying the TCM concept of “treatment based on syndrome differentiation,” the department provides distinctive conditioning methods such as acupoint thread embedding, acupuncture, and Chinese-medicine patches, achieving the dual goals of “weight loss + constitution conditioning” while meeting health and wellness needs. Team support: an experienced TCM team performs the procedures; physicians tailor a dedicated conditioning plan according to the patient’s constitution, such as phlegm-dampness or spleen deficiency, avoiding one-size-fits-all weight loss. Suitable patients: people who trust TCM principles and fear surgery or injections; wellness-oriented weight-loss patients who hope to regulate their constitution gently and assist weight management, after syndrome-differentiation assessment by a TCM physician. V. Rehabilitation Medicine (physical-fitness training). Technical focus: individualized, scientific exercise prescriptions are formulated on the basis of medical assessment, combining aerobic, anaerobic, and flexibility training, together with behavioral intervention and lifestyle guidance. Team support: a team qualified in sports medicine and rehabilitation provides services, with dedicated physical-fitness coaches offering one-to-one training guidance and process supervision. Suitable patients: people managing weight who hope to improve body composition and metabolic health through exercise, especially those who want to be slimmer but healthier, dislike boring exercise, or pursue a firm and shaped body. VI. Nutrition. Technical focus: full-cycle nutrition management, including individualized dietary assessment, nutritional-status analysis, and tailored scientific dietary-intervention plans, is provided. The department also innovatively develops energy-controlled fat-loss meals, breaking the stereotype that fat loss means eating boiled vegetables and achieving “eating well while still losing weight.” Team support: professional dietitians see patients and tailor dietary plans according to age, weight goals, and underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, adjusting and optimizing them regularly. Suitable patients: all people with weight-management or health-promotion needs, whether they want to lose weight scientifically or gain weight healthily, can receive targeted nutritional guidance. 2. Core advantages: ✅ Multidisciplinary collaboration: advantageous resources are integrated to form a multidisciplinary team with internal-medicine and surgical physicians, TCM physicians, dietitians, and exercise rehabilitation specialists consulting together and providing diverse standardized plans. ✅ Convenient online guidance + standardized offline follow-up: online new-media tools provide continuing support including dietary guidance, exercise advice, answers to health questions, and follow-up reminders, making professional guidance readily accessible. Regular outpatient follow-ups are arranged according to the individual plan; professional doctors, dietitians, and rehabilitation specialists evaluate results, optimize plans, and monitor indicators to ensure that management is safe and effective. ✅ Seamless closed-loop management: breaking the traditional single-visit model, the center builds a whole-process health-management loop of assessment–intervention–tracking–feedback–optimization and provides one-stop service, becoming a trustworthy partner on your weight-loss journey. ✅ Suzhou characteristics: Wu-dialect communication is supported to avoid language barriers. 3. Visit guide: Outpatient hours: Wednesday morning and Saturday morning each week. Location: North Building 12D (high-end medical area), inpatient department, Suzhou Kowloon Hospital. Appointment: telephone 13584882024.