Medical Weight Loss & Telehealth Care in Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs has UCHealth, Penrose-St. Francis and plenty of primary care. What's harder to find is a weight management clinic with openings in days rather than months, where the clinician who prescribes your medication also orders your labs and follows up with you. DalaHealth provides medical weight loss to Colorado Springs patients by telehealth, so the visit comes to you and nobody has to drive up I-25.
A highly qualified clinician, and the same one every time
Your care is managed by Maggie Smith, MSN, FNP-C, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with a master's in nursing and independent prescriptive authority in Colorado. Colorado lets nurse practitioners practice and prescribe independently, so you can book directly without a referral.
Many telehealth weight loss services work from a questionnaire and assign whoever is available. Here, Maggie evaluates you, orders and interprets your labs, prescribes when appropriate, and sees you at every follow-up.
What medical weight loss includes
- An evaluation of your history, current medications, past weight loss attempts and anything that may be making weight harder to lose, such as thyroid function, sleep, or other prescriptions.
- Labs, ordered electronically and drawn at a lab near you in Colorado Springs: a metabolic panel, lipids, A1c, thyroid function, and anything else your history calls for.
- A treatment plan, which may include medication, along with nutrition guidance built around how you actually eat.
- Regular follow-up by video to adjust doses, manage side effects and repeat labs, with secure messaging between visits.
GLP-1 medications, when they're appropriate
Semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound) are once-weekly injections approved for weight management in adults with a BMI of 30 or higher, or 27 or higher with a weight-related condition such as high blood pressure or prediabetes. They aren't prescribed during pregnancy or to anyone with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer or MEN 2. Maggie screens for both before prescribing, starts at a low dose, and raises it gradually so side effects stay manageable.
The prescription goes to your local pharmacy. Whether insurance covers it depends on your plan and diagnosis; Maggie will go over the options at your visit.
Who this tends to help most in Colorado Springs
- Anyone who has tried to get a weight management referral locally and been given a wait of weeks or months
- Anyone driving to Denver for specialist care who would rather not make that a monthly trip
- Military families around Fort Carson, Peterson and the Air Force Academy, who keep the same clinician wherever they move within Colorado
- Patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or prediabetes, whose weight and metabolic labs need to be managed together
Frequently asked questions
Who will I actually see? Maggie Smith, MSN, FNP-C, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with independent prescriptive authority in Colorado. She sees every patient herself, at every visit.
Do I need to travel to Denver for weight loss medication? No. Maggie is licensed to treat you anywhere in Colorado by telehealth, so the evaluation, prescribing, dose changes and follow-up all happen by video. Labs are drawn at a lab near you in Colorado Springs.
Do you prescribe GLP-1 medications like semaglutide or tirzepatide? Yes, when they're medically appropriate, after an evaluation and labs. A prescription is never guaranteed in advance; if a GLP-1 isn't right for you, Maggie will tell you why and what she recommends instead.
Is this a weight management clinic or an online program? A clinic. Your care is managed by a licensed clinician who orders and interprets labs, prescribes, and follows up, not by a questionnaire or a rotating pool of providers.
Related reading
- Medical Weight Loss in Arvada, CO: how medication management works over time
- Telehealth Healthcare in Arvada, CO: what a video visit covers
- Telehealth Weight Management & Wellness Care for Pueblo, CO
Book an evaluation
Every DalaHealth membership includes medical weight loss, and every visit can be done by video from Colorado Springs.
This page is for educational purposes and isn't a substitute for individualized medical advice. Medication is prescribed only when clinically appropriate, after an evaluation.