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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Health at Every Size

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:44:00 +0000

By Katy Harvey, MS, RD, LD

Albert Einstein once said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”  Studies have shown that 80% of American women are dissatisfied with their weight and 42% are actively trying to lose weight by dieting and/or exercising1,3.  These strategies rarely produce lasting weight loss.  It has also been suggested that chronic yo-yo dieting is harmful to one’s health.  So why do Americans keep putting themselves through the deprivation associated with dieting if it doesn’t work and is potentially harmful?  Perhaps a shift in mindset could break this cycle of “insanity.”
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Midwest Center for Eating Disorders 2316 E Meyer Blvd | Kansas City, MO | (816) 276-3880

Miss Representation- A must see for teens!

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:38:00 +0000

By Clinical Therapist- Kara Shelman, MSW, MPH
“You can’t be what you can’t see,” is the key slogan for Miss Representation, a documentary focused on how the media’s representation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in position of power. Girls cannot become successful, self-assured, empowered and engaged in the community around them if they do not see those who hold these traits on television, movies, and covers of magazines. This is the message that is heavily interwoven throughout the film by interviews with experts, activists and actors and alarming statistics.

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