Here are five highlights:
1. Dixie’s accredited center offers preoperative and postoperative care designed specifically for their severely obese patients.
2. To earn the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program designation, Dixie Regional met essential criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure and protocols for care, ensuring its ability to support patients with severe obesity.
3. The center also participates in a national data registry that yields semiannual reports on the quality of its processes and outcomes.
4. The standards are specific in the MBSAQIP Resources for Optimal Care of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patient 2014, published by the ACS and ASMBS.
5. Around 15.5 million people suffer from severe obesity in the United States, with numbers continuing to increase.
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