The Adult and Pediatric Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers have
been named a Level 4 specialized epilepsy center by the National
Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC). The Level 4 designation
is the highest given by the NAEC and identifies those centers
that offer the broadest range of complex medical and surgical
treatments for epilepsy.
"This Level 4 designation is shared by the best academic
centers in the country," said Eric B. Geller, M.D., Director
of the Adult Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. “As a result,
our patients have access to a highly-specialized team of
health care professionals and the most advanced medical and
surgical diagnostic treatment options for epilepsy and other
disorders.”
According to the NAEC guidelines, fourth-level epilepsy
centers serve as a regional or national referral facility.
They provide the most complex forms of intensive neurodiagnostic
monitoring as well as more extensive medical, neuropsychological
and psychosocial treatment. They also offer a complete evaluation
for epilepsy surgery, including intracranial electrodes,
and provide a broad range of surgical procedures for epilepsy.
"As a national referral center, we treat patients with intractable
epilepsy in which the seizures cannot be controlled simply
by medication,” explains Dr. Geller. Thanks to innovations
in the treatment of this disorder, we are now able to end
seizures, without side effects, in a majority of patients."
Founded in 1998, The National Association of Epilepsy Centers
establishes guidelines for services, personnel, and facilities
that should be available at a specialized epilepsy center
in an effort to provide consumers, government and other agencies
with criteria to evaluate the quality of epilepsy programs.
It then grants membership to qualifying programs. Besides
Saint Barnabas, about 100 comprehensive epilepsy programs
are members of the organization.
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