Baptist Health has been recognized as one of 101 hospitals across the U.S. to earn the distinction of Best Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery by The Leapfrog Group and Money magazine.
As part of the inaugural list for bariatric surgery, Baptist Health Bariatric Center-Little Rock is one of two facilities in Arkansas to receive the honor, and the only one in the state with an A patient safety rating.
Baptist Health achieved the organizations’ standards for safety, including performing a high enough number of procedures to give patients the best odds of a good outcome and keeping patients safe from errors, infections, and complications.
Baptist Health Bariatric Center-Little Rock has more than 40 years of experience offering surgical weight loss. On average, surgeons Eric Paul, MD, and Tripurari Mishra, MD, help more than 500 people lose weight and improve their health with weight loss surgery every year. More than 12,000 bariatric surgeries have been performed at the center since its program began.
Baptist Health’s bariatric surgeons are board-certified, meaning they have been evaluated through various criteria set forth by industry experts. Accreditation ensures that program line and physicians are continually working to stay up-to-date and trained on the newest treatment procedures, providing safe surgical care, and yielding successful results.
In addition to being named among Best Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery by Leapfrog and Money magazine, Baptist Health Bariatric Center-Little Rock is also designated as a Bariatric Center of Excellence and a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Institute of Quality.