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St. Joseph Medical Center,
Tacoma
St. Clare Hospital, Lakewood
St. Francis Hospital, Federal Way
St. Anthony Hospital, Gig Harbor
Enumclaw Regional Hospital, Enumclaw
Franciscan Medical Group
April 18, 2007
St. Francis Hospital honored for quality of its
surgical weight loss programs
Hospital earns designation as a Blue Distinction
Center
St. Francis Hospital of Federal Way, one of the
leading providers of weight loss surgery in Washington, has been
designated as a 2007 Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric
Surgery by Premera Blue Cross and Regence BlueShield.
Blue Distinction recognizes programs that offer
the best practices and highest standards of care. Premera Blue
Cross and Regence Blue Shield are among the largest health
insurance companies in the Pacific Northwest.
Created by the BlueCross BlueShield Association
in 1991, the Blue Distinction Center program recognizes
hospitals and specialty centers across the United States for
excellence in providing patients with important information
about their care and for collaborating with providers to improve
quality, health outcomes and affordability. This benefits
patients by helping them make better-informed decisions about
their health care choices.
By meeting these requirements, Blue Distinction
Center facilities like St. Francis Hospital demonstrate better
outcomes and consistency of care for their patients. Bariatric
surgeries have been provided since 2001 at St. Francis Hospital.
Last year alone, 426 surgeries were performed at the hospital.
The 110-bed hospital is part of the Franciscan
Health System, which is ranked No. 8 on the Top 100 list of the
nation’s best performing, most efficient health organizations as
determined by the independent research firm Verispan.
In March, St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma –
also part of the Franciscan organization – was named a Blue
Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by Premera Blue Cross and
Regence BlueShield.
Franciscan Health System
includes St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, St. Clare Hospital
in Lakewood, St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way; Franciscan
Medical Group (a network of primary care and specialty care
clinics and physicians); and Franciscan Hospice House. In
addition to surgical, critical and emergency care, the
Franciscan organization is the leading provider of cardiac
services in the South Puget Sound region. Franciscan is
affiliated with Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s
largest non-profit health care systems. Franciscan website:
www.FHShealth.org.
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