Digestive Health Associates

Southwest Endoscopy Center

 
 
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
A Covenant Surgical Partners practice and facility

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
 
Southwest Colorado's Office-Based Colon Cancer
 Screening and Prevention Specialists

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


Southwest Colorado's only facilty recognized by the 
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for Quality and Safety in Endoscopy

We specialize in providing office-based high-quality colonoscopy services that are 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 33,000 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."

We are pleased to announce our partnership with Covenant Surgical Partners
We will be rolling out a new website in the near future and appreciate your patience as we work to improve our services.


Read the New York Times:  10 Questions You Need to Ask About Colonoscopy
Watch CBS' Harry Smith's colonoscopy on the CBS Morning Show, with Katie Couric
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Need to laugh a little about your upcoming colonoscopy?  Watch Ms. Butt Meddler


ASGE Quality Endoscopy Unit Recognition Program
GIQuIC GI Quality Improvement Consortium
AAAHC Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Southwest Endoscopy Center
 
Southwestern Colorado's Accredited and Quality Recognized-Endoscopy Center


Celebrating our 18th year of service as Southwest Colorado's leading provider of outpatient endoscopy services
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