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NEW
PATIENT INSTRUCTIONS
Thank you for your interest in
Bay Area Committed to Kids
Medical Group. We look forward to
being able to help you and your
family. To help us prepare for
your first visit, please read the
following instructions. We
have found that a mutual
understanding from the beginning
of service of how our program
works helps ensure that you and
your family will be successful in
achieving the goals you are
motivated to achieve.
Prior to your first
appointment, we ask that you fill
out and return the forms found in
your initial packet (availability
to be downloaded from our webpage
at www.bactk.com coming soon!).
The information allows us to more
thoroughly get to know you and
your family while maximizing the
time spent with our health
professionals on your first
visit. Please read the questions
carefully and try to be as
thorough as possible.
An "Authorization to Release
Information" form is included in
your initial packet.
It is helpful for us to have
past medical records, including
growth charts, consultation notes
from other healthcare providers,
and previous lab work prior to
your first visit. Please send or
give this to your primary medical
provider prior to your first
visit, as time allows.
WHAT TO
EXPECT
We will want to assess you
over a series of appointments
during which time you will meet
many, if not all, the health
professionals that comprise our
multi-disciplinary program.
During the first visit (1.5
hrs) you will meet with Dr.
Jamie (Wallach), our
board-certified Physician
Nutrition Specialist and
Pediatrician to discuss and
clarify the issues that you think
you want help with. We will
extensively review your child's
medical and developmental
history, family medical history,
and school history (as
applicable). At that visit, you
will determine with Dr. Jamie the
subsequent appointments in an
order that best fits your family
and child's need. Those
visits will be hour long visits
with the nutritionist, behavior
specialist, and pediatric fitness
specialist.
YOUR
COMMITMENT
After focusing exclusively on
helping families effectively find
a healthy and balanced lifestyle,
we have learned that to provide
our service successfully,
families need to be informed and
better understand the commitment
involved.
Changing habits, especially
those that involve eating and
activity, require a level of
dedication and commitment that
can be sustained through the
months and years. We commit to
you that we will help you find
your family's way. There are
general suggestions and
recommendations that may fit most
families, but we are devoted to
helping you adjust your family's
current lifestyle only as much as
you need to achieve a healthy and
balanced way of life.
Ideally, visits will be
frequent (weekly or every other
week) for the first month or
two. This will help us get
to know you better to customize
our suggestions, as well as help
YOU remain as motivated and
accountable as you do when you
come to your first visit.
Life has a "funny way" of taking
over and "getting in the way" of
what we really want. Being
accountable to someone else
really works. Our goal is to
help you be accountable to
yourself so we'll reassess often
(almost every visit!!) the
benefit and reality of your
current frequency of
visits. Over the past 4-5
years, we have been successful
obtaining insurance reimbursement
for all of our services for PPO
patients.
Our
Mission
Our primary
mission is to help children and
families with weight problems
successfully alter and adapt
behavior patterns compatible with
improved health, weight, and
well-being in the challenging and
complicated society we currently
live in.
What makes
us different than the other
"weight loss/diet"
programs?
We make it our
primary objective to achieve our
mission with recommendations and
strategies that are
medically-monitored and delivered
by a compliment of
multi-disciplinary health
professionals in a comprehensive,
compassionate, successful, and
sustainable model compatible with
improved health, weight, and
well-being for all.
The
Philosophy Behind Our
Program
Our philosophy
originates from our belief that a
supportive, educational, safe,
and effective nutrition and
fitness program can be designed
for anyone.We are committed to
customizing known strategies that
work to create a program designed
specifically to fit you, your
child, and your family. We will
help you choose and develop
healthy lifestyle eating and
exercise patterns that will
increase self-confidence and
self-esteem while helping raise
body awareness and promote
healthy lifestyle changes.
How do we
do this?
Our assessment
and evaluation session is
extensive. We want to get to know
you and your family, your habits
and struggles as well as what
might already be working in your
life; what brings you
satisfaction and contentment. Our
challenge is to understand where
you are and meet you there. We
just can't slap an intervention
(otherwise known as a "silver
bullet"‚ "cure"‚ "quick
fix") on you. We need to help you
identify what do you really want
and what are you willing to
do.
Why are we
successful?
- We are continually
assessing and refining our
program recognizing that time
and experience yield better
insight and new information as
to what is really helpful and
has a high probability of
working and what does
not.
- Our program is based on
evidence-based medicine
practiced and published
throughout the United States,
as well as
internationally.
- Our practice is a
specialty practice, focusing
exclusively on the disease of
obesity and related
co-morbidities, weight
management and medical
nutrition. We have acquired
the specialized knowledge and
experience to treat metabolic
and weight problems, which
results in a higher standard
of medicine in this specific
area than is available from
the majority of primary care
health professionals.
- Our reputation in the
community is strong, and we
have accumulated a wealth of
continued information and
learning from all those who
have come before you.
- We are
personality-based. We
care and really want to know
you and help you. Every child
and family is unique and we
really like that!
- We really enjoy what
we do!!
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