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.