Palmdale Regional Medical Center

A Weight-Loss Journey for Two at Palmdale Regional

When diet and exercise are not enough to shed excess weight, bariatric, or weightloss, surger y at Palmdale Regional can make all the difference. Just ask Mary and Brien Siemantel.

Mary, in her 30s, was struggling with her weight and health. More than 100 pounds overweight, she was on blood pressure and cholesterol medication. Mary lost her mother at a young age. She didn’t want her health to take her from her own children too soon.

Diet and exercise was just not doing the trick. “Nobody really wants to have surgery because they’re overweight,” says Mary, a clinical quality analyst at Palmdale Regional. “But I decided it was a tool I needed and that’s just how I had to look at it.”

Her gastric sleeve surgery was a success,