Franciscan Health Weight Loss Center Indianapolis has received reaccreditation under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP), a joint quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).
MBSAQIP is a comprehensive, nationwide surgical quality program aimed at ensuring the safe and effective performance of metabolic and bariatric surgery. Surgical outcomes focus on weight loss and the treatment of obesity-related diseases, like diabetes, sleep apnea, and others. Research shows accredited centers experience lower complications, and better outcomes than that of non-accredited facilities.
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“The reaccreditation demonstrates our ongoing commitment to provide the highest quality of care to our bariatric population,” said Franciscan Physician Network bariatric surgeon Jonathan Mandelbaum, MD, who noted that every patient is placed in the MBSAQIP national database so a true and accurate quality report can be generated. “We have consistently achieved an exemplary rating. We were the first bariatric program in Indiana to begin outpatient sleeve gastrectomy. We are working on establishing a medical weight loss component of our clinic and hope to begin working with physicians in central Indiana to promote safe and sensible weight loss. We want to ensure that the new weight loss drugs are being prescribed safely.”
As an MBSAQIP-accredited hospital, Franciscan Health also becomes an ACS Surgical Quality Partner. Being a Surgical Quality Partner signifies a hospital’s dedication to consistently improving procedures and approaches, while maintaining a critical eye on process at every step. The Surgical Quality Partner designation lets patients know Franciscan Health Weight Loss Center Indianapolis is dedicated to quality and relentless self-improvement and has been verified or accredited by the ACS. Patients can trust that the care they receive at Surgical Quality Partner hospitals adheres to the most rigorous standards in surgical quality.
“ACS Quality programs are grounded in more than a century of experience and participation is an important measure of a hospital’s surgical quality,” said ACS Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS. “As an ACS Surgical Quality Partner, Franciscan Health Weight Loss Center Indianapolis has shown a commitment providing the best possible patient care, evaluating that care in a rigorous fashion, and dedicating themselves to continuous self-improvement.”
The MBSAQIP reaccreditation involved an eight-hour survey reviewing quality metrics on all patients and several dozen standards. “Based on these standards and quality measures we were recently named the top bariatric surgery hospital in the state of Indiana,” Dr. Mandelbaum said.
Franciscan Health Weight Loss Center Indianapolis, located at 5255 E. Stop 11 Road, Suite 440 in Indianapolis. For more information, call (317) 528-7525.