Digestive Health Associates

Durango, Colorado





Digestive Health Associates,
Professional Corporation
Practice Limited to Consultative Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Hepatology
Serving the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona from our Durango, Colorado location since 1982



Southwest Colorado's 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


We specialize in preparing you for and providing convenient, safe, private and comfortable colonoscopy services. Call us to schedule an "open access" colonoscopy*. In many cases no office consultation appointment is needed, saving you both time and money. Most patients spend less than two hours in our facility and leave with a full report of their procedure results, ready to resume most activities as soon as they depart. Our doctors are colonoscopy experts, performing more than 2,500 of these procedures yearly. We are committed to meeting our profession's goals for endoscopic safety and effectiveness.

*Not all health plans provide for "open access" services.

Read the New York Times:  10 Questions You Need to Ask About Colonoscopy
Read the Durango Herald:  Durangoan Touts Colonoscopy Benefits


Emergencies
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Practice News

Contact us online!
Digestive Health patients can now reach us through ReachMyDoctor, a secure free web portal designed for health care communications. 

Clinical research at Digestive Health
In press: 
Endoscopist directed administration of propofol: a world-wide safety experience
See our GI News page for more information on current research news in the field of gastroenterology and at Digestive Health.

We are proud to announce that the Southwest Endoscopy Center's Nicole Trujillo, RN has achieved certification by The
American Board of Certification for Gastroenterology Nurses.  She joins Southwest Endoscopy's Director of Nursing Sean Mouret, RN, CGRN, Denise Swanemyer, RN, CGRN, and Karen Gallagher, RN, CGRN in holding this prestigious professional recognition.

We also proudly announce that our facility administrator, Marianne Sloan, MBA, has been appointed to the
Medical Group Management Association Gastroenterology Administration Assembly's Executive Committee and to the American Gastroenterological Association Institute Practice Managers/Administrators Advisory Group.



Colorado gets an “A” for new legislation covering colon cancer screening
from the La Plata Health Watch column in the Durango Herald