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Recently, the Weight Loss Surgery Channel interviewed Jacqueline Lueck Sneve from the American Society of Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) about what it means for a weight loss surgery center to be designated as a Center of Excellence. Take a look at the video below.

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Here at the Nicholson Clinic we are proud to be recognized as a Center of Excellence by ASMBS.

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Bariatric surgery now has some welcome checks and balances from the Surgical Review Corporation. For the past five years, this independent, nonprofit organization has used a list of criteria to assess safety and quality in determining “Centers of Excellence.” More than a thousand bariatric surgery centers have sought its seal of approval; so far, only about a third has it.

The corporation administers the “Center of Excellence” program on behalf of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The centers are measured based on the experience of their surgeons; the accreditation of their surgeons and hospital; the volume of their surgeries; the thoroughness of their bariatric surgery program; and the level of quality their equipment meets when it comes to dealing with obese patients.

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