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Staff of BWH’s Pain Management Center
The American Pain Society this month named BWH’s Pain Management Center a 2011 Clinical Center of Excellence, in recognition of its dedication to providing care that is patient-centered, state-of-the-art, evidence-based, cost-conscious, culturally appropriate and safe.
“Our team consistently provides the best care possible for our patients,” said Edgar L. Ross, MD, director of the Pain Management Center. “This award is truly a testament to the unique resources our center offers, including a large interdisciplinary team with multiple specialties and different backgrounds, and a staff that is dedicated solely to treating pain.”
The 2011 designation marks the second time BWH has been named a Clinical Center of Excellence; the hospital first received the award in 2007.
“We are the only institution to have received this award twice,” noted Robert Jamison, PhD, of the Pain Management Center. “It’s an honor to once again be recognized as a Center of Excellence, and for our team, which added a nurse practitioner, psychologist, pharmacist, and many pain researchers since our first award. To receive this highest acknowledgement for our continued collaboration and interdisciplinary nature twice is quite an achievement.”
Pain Management Center clinicians care for both inpatients and outpatients for a wide variety of acute and chronic medical pain conditions, treating about 6,500 hospitalized patients and logging 6,000 new and 19,000 return outpatient visits each year.