CCE Gastrointestinal disorders: Mayo Clinic - Selection criteria
Awards and distinctions that make Mayo Clinic a Center of Excellence
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Year Founded: 1967
Faculty: 75
Annual budget: $88 million
Annual clinical trials: 55
Federally funded grants: 40
Faculty members: 75
Total employees: 308
Procedures performed annually: 45,473
Annual referrals: 13,657 physician-requested consultations
National awards and recognition: U.S. News & World Report top GI practice for 19 years
Number of new research protocols engaged in annually: 47
RO1 active grants: 27
Scope of GI endoscopy servicesMayo Clinic Rochester GI provides diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic care to inpatients and outpatients. Procedures include:
- EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy)
- Colonoscopy
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- EUS (endoscopic ultrasound)
- ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography)
- Esophageal, gastroduodenal, and colonic motility studies
- Anorectal function testing
- Testing for chronic constipation & other motility disorders
- Capsule endoscopy
- Gastric laboratory specimen collection
- Double balloon endoscopy
- Single balloon endoscopy
Scope of Services GIH Clinical Practice:
- Gastrointestinal Neoplasia
- Comprehensive
- Advanced Endoscopy
- Esophageal
- Gut Failure
- Hepatobiliary
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Motility
- Pancreatic
- Pediatric
Level of technological equipment on site:
- Double Balloon Technology
- Single Balloon Technology
- Spy Glass
- ARMS (Anal Rectal Manometry Sensor) Equipment
- Photodynamic & radio-ablation therapy for Barrett’s esophagus or advanced esophageal cancer
- Endoscopic pseudocyst draining
Quality Improvement Initiatives
- Formal quality committee and a full-time quality advisor.
- Radio Frequency Identification system (RFID) that reduced the number of specimen labeling errors from 8.9 percent to 0.4 percent.
- Implementation of the Universal Protocol and the computerized endoscopic.
- Formed a patient/family advisory council that meets monthly.