St. John's bariatric surgery program named center of excellence
May 9, 2008

St. John’s Bariatric Surgery Program has been named a Center of Excellence. It is the sixth Missouri program to achieve that designation from the National Surgery Review corporation. A center of excellence holds the highest level of efficacy, efficiency, and safety in a bariatric program, and those locations are among the most comprehensive and multi-disciplinary surgical weight loss programs.

The Surgical Review Corporation assesses programs to ensure that guidelines and procedures are met, the facility has proper equipment and the staff is well trained in order to become a Center of Excellence.

“The patient can be assured that the institutions bearing the Center of Excellence designation perform a minimum amount of bariatric procedures per year, maintain staff education regarding the care of the bariatric patient; maintain appropriate equipment for safe care; and have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care and support of the weight loss surgery patient,” said Mary Trampler, Nurse Coordinator of St. John’s Bariatric Surgery.

A highly trained team of surgeons, nurses, nutritionists, exercise specialists and psychologists allow St. John's to offer patients safe and effective weight-loss surgery, comprehensive pre- and post-op education and ongoing aftercare. St. John’s Bariatric Surgery Program began in 2004.

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