Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank received top honors for its bariatric surgery from HealthGrades, an organization that ranks health care organizations. The hospital is one of 101 hospitals in the nation to receive the top five-star rating for the surgery, a treatment for morbid obesity. HealthGrades examined the outcomes of patients in hospitals in 17 states from 2002 to 2004 to come up with the ranking.
