Digestive Health Associates, Professional Corporation
An Office-Based Private Practice Limited to Consultative Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Hepatology
Serving the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona since 1983
Board Certified Office-Based Specialists in Gastroenterology
Recognized by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for promoting quality in endoscopy
AAAHC-accredited Endoscopy Center
Participating Facility, GI Quality Improvement Consortium
Participating Facility, National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable "80% by 2018" Campaign
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Southwest Colorado's Office-Based Colon Cancer
Screening and Prevention Specialists
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Colon cancer is...
Preventable | Treatable | Beatable
Colorectal cancer screening saves lives.
If everyone aged 50 years old or older were screened regularly, up to 60% of deaths from this cancer could be avoided.
"Patients who want the best results should pick an outstanding colonoscopist, cleanse their bowels scrupulously and probably take the final laxative dose shortly before the procedure. Colonoscopies have helped reduce the death rate from colorectal cancer. The main problem with colonoscopies is that too few people bother to get them."
-From the New York Times, December 19, 2008
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Southwest Colorado's only facilty recognized by the
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We specialize in providing office-based high-quality colonoscopy services that are safe, comfortable, private, cost-effective and convenient. Colonoscopy in our quality-recognized and accredited office-based endoscopy center avoids the high costs of a hospital outpatient department.
Most patients spend less than two hours in our facility and leave with a complete report of their findings, ready to resume most activities as soon as they depart. Our doctors are colonoscopy experts, performing more than 2,000 of these procedures yearly at our in-town endoscopy center, where we have provided more than 31,000 colonoscopies since we opened in 2001. Our patients have the confidence of knowing that Digestive Health's experienced specialists have an extensive local reputation, having together provided 75 years of gastroenterology care in Durango.
Does It Matter Who Is the Doctor Who Performs Your Screening Colonoscopy?
-Elaine Schattner in Forbes - 06/09/2014
See our Colonoscopy Quality FAQs to learn more about how colonoscopy at Digestive Health and Southwest Endoscopy "measures up."
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Safe and comfortable care provided by experienced board certified gastroenterologists
Celebrating our 17th year of service as Southwest Colorado's leading provider of outpatient endoscopy services
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