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 services Mayo Clinic Rochester GI provides diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic care to inpatients and outpatients. Procedures include:
EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy)
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.