Sanford Eating Disorders & Weight Management Center

Outpatient treatment for eating disorders is based on a multidisciplinary team approach, which includes psychology, psychiatry, dietetics, nursing and medicine. Our team will assess you and determine the level of care you need.

If the team determines that you need outpatient care, we develop a treatment plan, which typically includes one to three sessions per week with various members of the team. Depending on progress and severity of the disorder, transfers to higher levels of care may occur, but patients typically return to the outpatient clinic.

The outpatient team will work with you to ensure that appropriate treatment is being delivered over time and that you're making progress.

Intensive outpatient treatment is useful when some structure is required but with enough time in the day to accommodate daily activities such as school or work.

Intensive outpatient services include meals and snacks, groups, medication management and therapy services. Intensive outpatient treatment is useful as a step down from partial hospitalization or as a step up from outpatient services in order to get back on track.

We offer eating disorder intensive outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents in morning or afternoon time slots.

When outpatient care is not enough, but full hospital treatment is not necessary, the partial hospital program at Sanford Health offers more intensive treatment for teens and adults dealing with eating disorders.

You will take part in a full range of therapies shown to work to help overcome eating disorders. Patients live off-site but spend each weekday from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the partial hospital program. We also offer intensive outpatient services with shorter daily hours.

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When your eating disorder is considered life-threatening, your doctor will often require you to be under close monitoring. Those who fail to respond to outpatient treatment or partial hospitalization, or whose medical or individual treatment needs require it, may be admitted into the Inpatient Eating Disorders Program located at Sanford Medical Center.

Treatment during the inpatient stage is intensive, including environmental trigger management and individual and family therapy. Our staff provides personalized guidance and support throughout your hospital stay.

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Weight loss management is a medically-managed weight loss program focusing on medication, interventions (if needed), individual and group nutritional classes, meal replacements, psychological evaluation and support as well as exercise options.

Weight loss management has many programs to fit your personal needs, including healthy lifestyles.