Bariatric Institute, APC, a California professional medical corporation (the “Clinic”), its affiliated clinics, and Bariatric Institute MSO, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Management Company”), its affiliated surgery centers (Clinic and Management Company will be referred to herein as “Bariatric Institute” and sometimes referred to herein as “we” or “us”), complies with all applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Bariatric Institute does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, or sexual orientation.

 

Bariatric Institute provides free aids and services to people with disabilities to communicate effectively with us, such as:

 

• Qualified sign language interpreters
• Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)
• Provides free language services to people whose primary language is not English, such as:
  • Qualified interpreters
  • Information written in other languages

If you need these services, please let us know when you make your appointment.

 

If you believe that Clinic has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance with

 

 

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at: