Baptist Weight-Loss Center Recognized for Quality, Cost-Effective Bariatric Surgery

Baptist Weight-Loss Center among first to receive new designation

Florida Blue has recognized the Baptist Weight-Loss Center to receive a Blue Distinction® Center+ designation in the area of bariatric surgery by the Blue Distinction® Centers for Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction® Centers are nationally designated health care facilities shown to deliver quality specialty care based on objective measures that were developed with input from the medical community, for patient safety and better health outcomes.

To receive a Blue Distinction Center+ for Bariatric Surgery designation, a health care facility must demonstrate success in meeting patient safety as well as bariatric-specific quality measures, including complications and readmissions, for gastric stapling and/or gastric banding procedures. A health care facility must also have earned national accreditations at both the facility level and the bariatric care-specific level, as well as demonstrate better cost efficiency relative to its peers.

“The Baptist Weight-Loss Center’s goal is to help patients improve both their health and their quality of life, and we are honored to have received the Blue Distinction Center designation,” said Richard Busbee, bariatric director, Baptist Weight-Loss Center. For more information about the Baptist Weight-Loss Center, visit ebaptisthealthcare.org/bariatrics or call 850.437. TRIM (8746).

For more information about the Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program and for a complete listing of the designated facilities, please visit www.bcbs.com/bluedistinction.

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