Helping You Feel Whole From the Inside Out
If you live with a digestive condition like ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, you might struggle in silence, often forgoing important events and life’s special moments. But you don’t have to live that way, and help is closer than you think.
Here, we’re taking steps so you can feel secure, supported and whole again, including meeting you with uncommon compassion, extraordinary advancements in digestive surgery and a holistic approach to treating your gastrointestinal condition.
GI Care That Goes Beyond the Basics
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By Creating a Personal Care Plan for Every Patient
Your needs inform our care. Our specialists will become experts in your health and your goals, so we can design a plan for your digestive care that is uniquely yours.
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By Devoting a Team of Specialists to You
You may need specialized care from a range of medical fields, not just gastroenterology. Here, you’ll receive exceptional collaboration from digestive health specialists and colleagues in anesthesia and nursing, general surgery, nutrition, oncology and speech therapy. By working in tandem, we’ll provide you with multidisciplinary care for your whole health.
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By Taking a Whole-Person Approach to Care
You feel best when you feel whole. That’s why we don’t just focus on your physical recovery. We aim to also soothe your mind and boost your spirit. We use innovation and commitment to your entire wellness to make sure you are well inside and out, now and in the days to come.
Digestive Conditions We Treat
Some conditions that impact your digestion are simple to treat. Others require more care and a plan that touches every aspect of your condition, so you can feel whole. We treat digestive health conditions like:
- Biliary disorders
- Celiac disease
- Chronic diarrhea or nausea
- Crohn’s disease
- Dysphagia or difficulty swallowing
- Esophageal conditions, like Barrett's esophagus
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Gallstones
- Gastrointestinal cancers and tumors
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Heartburn
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Large colon polyps
- Liver disease
- Motility disorders
- Pancreatic cancers and tumors
- Pancreatitis
- Postsurgical complications, like leaks and fistulas
- Short bowel syndrome and home nutrition support
- Stool accidents
- Ulcerative colitis
Tiny Incisions That Make a Big Difference
We’re making your surgical experience shorter, less painful and less likely to lead to noticeable scarring. Using sophisticated robotic technology controlled by leading surgeons, we can operate with more precision than ever before. In most minimally invasive procedures, your surgeon will make a tiny incision and guide a tiny camera connected to a thin, hollow device into your body to identify and correct abnormalities and remove samples for inspection. Most procedures are done in an outpatient setting and require very little hospital recovery time.
Comprehensive Digestive Services
- Colonoscopy
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We can look for and treat illnesses and other abnormalities of your large intestine and rectum with a colonoscopy. In this procedure, your physician guides a thin, hollow and lighted instrument called a scope toward your large intestine. This important screening can detect ulcers, as well as cancers of the stomach and esophagus.
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
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In an endoscopic ultrasound, your physician transmits sound waves into your chest and digestive tract that translate into images of your body, so that your care team can visualize irregularities like tumors and bile duct stones.
- Endoscopy or Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
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To better understand the upper portions of your digestive tract, like your esophagus, stomach and upper small intestine, your physician may recommend an endoscopy, or an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). In this common procedure, your physician will use a tiny camera attached to the tip of an endoscope to see detailed views of the inside of your upper GI tract. You may experience slight discomfort after the procedure that usually clears in just a few days.
- Fluoroscopy
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We use feedback from a series of X-rays to see how your body functions. A contrast dye that’s ingested by you or directly administered into your system is captured by these X-ray beams and then transmitted to a nearby computer, where findings from the movement are translated in moving images. This procedure, called a fluoroscopy, helps us recognize swallowing disorders and can inform how we treat them.
- Laparoscopic Colectomy
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In a laparoscopic colectomy, your surgeon will use leading-edge minimally invasive equipment to gently enter your abdomen and treat abnormalities that are impacting your colon. Using sophisticated tools, your surgeon will briefly bring your colon outside your body, where it can be treated under extreme care before being placed back into your abdomen to heal. We use laparoscopic colectomies to treat colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, as well as control irregular bleeding and dislodge bowel obstructions.
- Radiofrequency Ablation
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In radiofrequency ablation, heat from radiofrequency energy is used to destroy abnormal esophageal cells, often tampered by acidic damage to the esophagus in a condition called Barrett’s esophagus. Your physician can help you manage any chest discomfort you may experience after the procedure.
Digestive Care Is Close to Home
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Formerly known as Redmond Regional Medical Center
Your Personal Guide Through Your Journey
Managing your digestive health has never been easier with your very own resourceful and compassionate care coordinator, a liaison committed to helping you navigate your care. Your care coordinator will help you understand your plan, coordinate appointments and answer questions you may have regarding your medical finances.