2009/2010 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award

HealthGrades recognized 88 hospitals as 2009/2010 Bariatric Surgery Five-Star recipients.This places them within the top 15% of all hospitals nationwide for bariatric surgery.In The HealthGrades Fourth Annual Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals Study, HealthGrades evaluated the quality of bariatric surgery in hospitals across 19 states that provide information on all patients.

Due to the growing number of obese Americans and the explosion of bariatric surgery programs in the U.S., patients have many choices when it comes to selecting a program. This study has found a wide variation in the quality and outcomes of these programs. Because bariatric surgery is an elective procedure, patients have the time to thoroughly investigate their surgeon and hospital before making a decision on where to have the surgery performed.

As other studies have found, high bariatric surgery volumes correlated with better inhospital outcomes. In this study, higher-volume programs, those with greater than 375 cases over three years, had a 32% lower risk of patient complications than lower volume programs, those with less than 75 cases over three years

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