About Us
Who are CEMMS?
Internationally, we are encouraged to refer to a facility that offers high volume obesity surgery (>100 cases per year), as Gauteng CEMMS. That encompasses treatment of obesity as a disease and all associated diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and obstructive sleep apnoea. To date, surgery has been the most effective method in dealing with obesity and these associated comorbidities. There are also alternative medical and dietary treatments for obesity and this centre will also assist patients who request this form of management. This Centre not only has the unique capability of offering all the internationally accepted surgical procedures (Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG), Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGBP) and Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch (BPD-DS) surgeries), but with a more than 15 year, 3000 + patient surgeon experience.
Our Values
Vision
Mission
Values
We practice professional patient centred ethical medicine with integrity, accountability, honesty, transparency, and compassion, through continuous innovation, teamwork, education and collaboration to empower patients to make their own decisions about their health with assistance of our collective knowledge and experience.
Bariatric/Specialist Gastroenterological Surgery and Care
We are specialised surgical gastroenterology centre of excellence with a special focus on metabolic (obesity), colorectal surgery, robotic surgery, endocrine surgery etc. Presently, we operate in accredited Centres of Excellence between Netcare Waterfall Clinic and Fourways Life Hospital in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
We aspire to offering an integrated care service model, that aims to coordinate and connect relevant health services to your condition and diagnosis, delivered by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of relevant specialist medical practitioners , the goal of which is to address the whole of a patient’s needs, improve the quality of care and life, client satisfaction, and system efficiency.
What is a multidisciplinary approach?
Uses a team of more than just a small group of professionals, where a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy and generates greater performance for optimal results. We are a dedicated and trained team, effective in our duties, here to guide and alleviate our patients and on call for those who refer and trust in us.
We look forward to serving our patients and to seeing the value that each service adds to the patient’s experience and recovery. It is important to us, to engage with our patient(s) and make their path to recovery a team effort, where the patient(s) understand what is happening, knows where they can get the best assistance and understands how they can be an integral part of their own healing process.
We believe that your preoperative assessment, workup, and post operative recovery is as important as the surgery itself, and the team encourages and motivates our patients to follow our guidance with respect to lifestyle, exercise and diet, to promote best results, and get back a significantly improved quality of life.
