{"id":317477,"date":"2014-11-01T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=317477"},"modified":"2014-11-02T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T21:47:12","slug":"mother-frances-bariatric-surgery-program-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=317477","title":{"rendered":"Mother Frances Bariatric Surgery Program Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_MotherFrances-sign-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_MotherFrances-sign-2-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_MotherFrances-sign-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-317478\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 The bariatric surgery program at Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler recently received the Blue Cross Blue Shield \u201cBlue Distinction Plus +\u201d designation. This is the highest level of distinction awarded by BCBS, according to a Mother Frances news release.  \u201cBeing awarded this distinction not only means that we meet the quality standards that Blue Cross Blue Shield sets, it means that we work hard to go above and beyond them,\u201d said Betsy Carson, RN, CBN, Bariatric Surgery Coordinator at Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics. \u201cIt is incredibly important to us to provide the highest levels of quality care to our community and ensure they are getting the very best care available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 The bariatric surgery program at Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler recently received the Blue Cross Blue Shield \u201cBlue Distinction Plus +\u201d designation. This is the highest level of distinction awarded by BCBS, according to a Mother Frances news release. \u201cBeing awarded this distinction not only means that we meet the quality standards that Blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=317477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother Frances Bariatric Surgery Program Recognized<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 04:43:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317479,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317477\/revisions\/317479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}