CMCOEM Benefits
CMCOEM participants often begin to experience benefits as soon as the bariatric team commits to pursuing the designation. At every milestone – from earning provisional status to achieving designation – participants accrue benefits that reinforce the value of the CMCOEM center of excellence program.
Transformative Process
Professional Recognition and Distinction
Improved Safety and Efficacy
Decreased Costs and Complications
Dual Designation and IFSO Endorsement
International Fellow of the ASMBS
Marketing and Patient Awareness
Global Healthcare
Network that elevates the Specialty
Value for Excellence Product and Service Offers
BOLD
Support and Communications
Transformative Process
Regardless of how experienced surgeons are or how established departments were prior to applying to the program, pursuing and maintaining designation can be a transformative experience for the entire patient care team. SRC’s COE process challenges participants to establish a systemic culture of excellence versus simply earning a certificate. Cultivating this excellence should not end once designation is achieved; it’s an ongoing process that promotes continued improvement of a center’s bariatric program to help ensure that everyone involved is dedicated to caring for and meeting the needs of the patient.
Professional Recognition and Distinction
By complying with the CMCOEM requirements, surgeons and facilities demonstrate a commitment and ability to consistently deliver the highest level of bariatric surgical care possible. Earning the CMCOEM designation will signify that the facility and surgeon are among the best in the specialty, which will be an important distinction in both patient and professional settings.
CMCOEM designation will also distinguish bariatric programs from other medical specialties. Participation in the CMCOEM program will ensure that the administration and medical staff understand the benefits of bariatric and metabolic surgery. Participants can expect designation to recognize bariatric surgeons as leaders in improving care quality and raise the department’s profile within the facility, among peers and in the community.
Improved Safety and Efficacy
Facilities and surgeons that participate in CMCOEM are joining a safety and quality improvement program that seeks to identify and accelerate adoption of best clinical practices and cost-effective solutions. CMCOEM centers will not only improve the quality of care they’re delivering to individual patients, but will also help establish the bariatric surgery specialty as a recognized leader in healthcare.
CMCOEM’s central outcomes database will be used to help determine which treatment works best for which patient and under what circumstances. Information from the database should assist clinicians, patients, payors and policymakers to make informed decisions that will improve healthcare at the individual level and for the patient population as a whole.
Decreased Costs and Complications
Participant hospitals in other COE programs SRC administers have indicated that their involvement in the program has resulted in decreased length of stay, reduced complication rates and decreased intensive care unit (ICU) stays, which all translate into cost savings. Learn more about how COE designation can improve outcomes and reduce complications.
Dual Designation and IFSO Endorsement
Every CMCOEM designee automatically earns a dual designation with SRC’s International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery (ICE) program. Seamless alignment of requirements between the two programs makes this possible.
The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO (http://www NULL.ifso NULL.com/)), which represents 40 national associations of bariatric surgeons, endorses SRC’s ICE program. This recognition was formally announced during IFSO’s 14th World Congress that was held in August 2009.
International Fellow of the ASMBS
International members of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS (http://www NULL.asmbs NULL.org/)) who have earned provisional status and are entering data into BOLD are eligible for the “International Fellow of the ASMBS” (IFASMBS) designation.
Marketing and Patient Awareness
Designees are able to market and differentiate themselves among bariatric surgery care providers. The CMCOEM designation will be synonymous with superior patient care, and the associated seal will be a readily identifiable symbol of a center’s achievement. Upon designation, hospitals and surgeons will gain access to graphic files, key messages and marketing guidelines that their public relations and marketing staff or outside agencies can immediately leverage in their promotional efforts. Designees are encouraged to publicize their achievement through:
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With the abundance of bariatric-related topics in the mainstream news and an increased number of patient websites, consumers are seeking ways to distinguish bariatric programs that deliver high-quality perioperative and long-term follow-up care. Surgeons and facilities acknowledge that patients will increasingly recognize the importance of the CMCOEM designation and use it as a guide when selecting a bariatric surgery provider.
Global Healthcare
Patients around the world are seeking access to quality healthcare from top providers – and they are increasingly willing to travel abroad to do so. Competition for these patients is intensifying, and major medical facilities and surgeons worldwide are making investments in equipment, training and the patient experience to position themselves as first-class healthcare providers.
While clinical practices can vary from country to country, the CMCOEM program will help establish universal standards that will enable patients and payors to measure bariatric surgery providers against these standards. The program will help ensure that the safest, highest quality of care is delivered to bariatric patients worldwide, regardless of where they choose to have their procedure performed.
Network that Elevates the Specialty
In addition to emphasizing excellence at a local level, healthcare providers will value CMCOEM participation because it connects them to an elite group who are similarly dedicated to delivering safe, cost-effective, high-quality patient care. Significant participation in CMCOEM and its central outcomes database is not only essential to the future of the specialty, but also integral to developing risk stratification methodologies, helping reduce unnecessary healthcare costs, and supporting direct improvements in patient care. These providers recognize that their participation will keep them at the forefront of the bariatric and metabolic surgical fields.
Value for Excellence (VforE) Product and Service Offers
hrough the VforE program, SRC identifies companies that offer special products, services and pricing opportunities to CMCOEM program participants and designees. Providers are able to take advantage of these offers to enhance their own bariatric surgical care and the resources they provide to patients.
VforE program benefits are available in the following categories:
- Equipment
- Patient Information
- Provider Education and Consulting
BOLD
Integral to the program’s success will be data collection through BOLD, SRC’s proprietary database. BOLD will ensure program compliance and support outcomes-based medicine that will safeguard the specialty’s future.
Through BOLD, CMCOEM surgeons will gain real-time access to individual patient information that supports clinical decisions. Providers can also obtain meaningful data through numerous daily reports that are based on information from the surgeon’s individual practice. National summary reports enable participants to compare their individual outcomes to aggregate data and assess their approach to care. While information from BOLD will be readily available to surgeons participating in the program, surgeon-specific data will not be disclosed without the surgeon’s consent.
Ultimately, BOLD will be most beneficial to bariatric surgery patients, as providers will use its data to determine the most effective procedures and most appropriate care for each patient. Over time, aggregate data could prove pivotal in advocacy efforts for the specialty in each country.
Learn more about BOLD activation and approvals that enable CMCOEM participants to enter patient information into BOLD.
SRC Support and Communications
CMCOEM participants are able to leverage SRC Support to help guide the continued development of their bariatric program as they work toward earning or maintaining designation:
- Direct support is available Monday – Friday from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm ET by contacting +1.919.792.3770 or srcsupport@surgicalreview.org (srcsupport null@null surgicalreview NULL.org).
- Participants receive regular communications from SRC containing information on program developments, benefits, and news highlights.