About NEBC                                                         

The Northeast Bariatric Center

The Northeast Bariatric Center at Hazleton General Hospital is dedicated to providing its patients with a compassionate, comprehensive, and multi-disciplinary program for treating the disease of morbid obesity. The program offers exercise, behavioral, and nutritional education to assist in maximizing the benefits of a patient’s weight-loss surgery. We strive to continue to offer program and surgical excellence with successful outcomes.

A Center of Excellence

The Northeast Bariatric Center at Hazleton General Hospital is a designated Bariatric Center of Excellence, fully accredited by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the Surgical Review Corporation. Being a Center of Excellence is a distinguished honor that recognizes our adherence to strict standards of excellence in performance, quality, patient satisfaction, and successful surgical outcomes for our bariatric patients.

As a Bariatric Center of Excellence, we are fully committed to helping you along your journey of discovering a healthier and more fit you. We provide you with the necessary weight-loss tools to assist in this life-changing experience, and we work together to find a program that’s a right fit for you so that you can start living life to its fullest.

Here at the Northeast Bariatric Center, we’re compassionate about your needs and have developed a comprehensive approach to help you achieve your lifetime goal of a healthier and more energetic you. We realize this is much more than a surgical procedure to you. Let us help you through this life-changing journey.

The NEBC Leaf

With more than 90 million Americans affected by obesity, the Northeast Bariatric Center at Hazleton General Hospital is taking steps to create awareness of this disease, as well as providing comfortable accommodations at its acute-care facilities. This leaf symbol, which is placed on select furniture, bathroom doors, and equipment throughout the hospital and Hazleton Health & Wellness Center (Hazleton General Hospital’s outpatient center) indicates safe and comfortable accommodations to support above average weight up to 450 pounds. The leaf symbol is verification that we are compassionate about the well-being of our patients and visitors.

(11-2011)