Located in Detroit, Michigan, Henry Ford's pancreas surgery team receives Health Grades highest rating of 5 stars for complex gastrointestinal operations and procedures including pancreas surgery.
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Members of pancreas surgery service have performed several hundred pancreas operations in Michigan. Henry Ford Hospital meets the Leapfrog Group's (www.leapfroggroup.com) recommended quality and safety criteria for pancreatectomy (surgical removal of the pancreas) and receives Health Grades highest rating of 5-stars (www.healthgrades.com) for complex gastrointestinal operations and procedures.
Indeed, our surgeons perform in the top percentile of all pancreas surgery programs in the country.
The in-hospital 30-day mortality for these procedures is 3 percent for the most complex operations, such as the Whipple pancreatectomy and nearly 0 percent for the less complex surgeries, including distal pancreatectomy, central pancreatectomy and pancreaticojejunostomy for chronic pancreatitis.
Henry Ford's surgeons in Detroit operate one of Michigan's busiest pancreas surgery practices. Several of our surgeons perform laparoscopic distal pancreatectomies
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