Midwest Center for Eating Disorders, formerly known as VITA

Midwest Center for Eating Disorders in Kansas City

Located at Research Medical Center

The Midwest Center for Eating Disorders provides a caring and supportive family environment to safely lead individuals with eating disorders toward medically, emotionally, and spiritually healthier lives. We are dedicated to a multi-disciplinary team approach for each individual client and fully use the unique services available at the Midwest Center for Eating Disorders.

Midwest Center for Eating DisordersFind out if you or someone you love is exhibiting signs of an eating disorder.

For more than 20 years, the Midwest Center for Eating Disorders has provided a premium standard of care for individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders. Midwest Center for Eating Disorders specializes in inpatient and day treatment eating disorder programs, and offers one of the few inpatient medical programs in the nation.

At Midwest Center for Eating Disorders, healing takes place in a JCAHO-accredited state-of-the-art medical facility with access to Research Medical Center’s medical and ancillary services, physician specialists, laboratory, and radiology services, many of which are not available in other residential programs. Individuals come to our facility from all over the United States because of the rare comprehensive care we offer. In order to provide the best care for our clients, our program currently has a full-time medical director, dietitian, expressive therapist, 2 full-time therapists, and around-the-clock nursing care. Midwest Center for Eating Disorders has an extremely high success rate: 50 to 80 percent of our clients successfully continue their recovery in outpatient care and do not need further inpatient treatment.

For more information regarding Midwest Center for Eating Disorders, call (816) 276-3880. You can also review our admission process.

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Negative Core Beliefs

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000

 By: Catherine Mapes, LCSW

Through my experience working with eating disorders patients, Ihave found that our patients are, as Anita Johnston describes in her book, Eating in the Light of the Moon, “[…] some of the brightest, most talented, andmost creative [people] I had ever met. This was, however, was not how they perceivedthemselves. They saw themselves as incompetent, worthless, and unattractive.” Aneating disorder is a complicated disease. One of its most pervasive anddamaging traits is the negative core beliefs that are formed in childhood andadolescence.
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Midwest Center for Eating Disorders 2316 E Meyer Blvd | Kansas City, MO | (816) 276-3880

Talking to ‘Ed’ - Post Discharge Conversations

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:26:00 +0000

By: Kara Shelman, MSW, MPH-Clinical Therapist

An important part of treatment is involving the family in adiscussion of what can be helpful topics to talk about and what can be moretriggering topics to discuss with your loved one when they return home from aninpatient stay. Triggering topics can include discussion of weight, calories,food talk, exercise, etc. and talking extensively about these can be verydifficult for your loved one. Of course there is no way we can avoid such talkoutside the safe walls of treatment but family members willing to learn whatcan help at home is another way to show that support!
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