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Healthy Choices Can Lower Your Colon Cancer Risk
A new study finds you can lower cancer risk by 40 percent by changing your lifestyle, and colon cancer is one type that is most responsive to habit changes.
State-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology assists our doctors with screenings.
Learn MoreIt’s time to screen for Colorectal Cancer! It could save your life.
Request a Colonoscopy TodayBy May 31, 2022, most health insurance plans will fully cover this procedure to evaluate a positive stool-based test for colon cancer. Check with your insurance about your coverage.
Learn MoreOur gastroenterologists and staff at Endoscopy Center of Delaware are dedicated to providing quality, affordable care to the community in our quest to lower colon cancer rates and treat an array of digestive diseases, including Crohn’s Disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
We believe in compassionate medicine, where patients feel reassured and unrushed. We hold ourselves to the highest of standards, as our center is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Our board-certified GI doctors specialize in a myriad of GI procedures, including colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and upper endoscopy.
If you are due for a colonoscopy or in need of a GI procedure, don’t put it off any longer. Give us a call today!
Endoscopy Center of Delaware is committed to ensuring that your experience with us is relaxed and worry-free, from consultation through recovery. To assist us, we ask that you read and comply with all guidelines.
We’re pleased to partner with StopColonCancerNow to help boost colon cancer screenings and prevention for residents in New Castle County.
At Endoscopy Center of Delaware, your time is as valuable to us as it is to you. That’s why we provide online access to a variety of forms that patients may complete before their visit. Please take a moment to download and print the appropriate form(s).
Learn MoreEndoscopy Center of Delaware accepts most major insurance. We will bill your insurance carrier for you; however, we cannot tell you what your policy will cover. Since your insurance policy and coverage are between you and your carrier, we urge you to contact them prior to your procedure.
Learn MoreEndoscopy Center of Delaware has integrated state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to enhance the precision and effectiveness of our colonoscopy procedure. This AI system digitally analyzes real-time video feeds, assisting our gastroenterologists in identifying polyps.
Learn MoreKathie DegliObizzi Love the doctors and the care! However... The actuality of the situation, is that there is limited employee communication, call to action within the Endoscopy Center of Delaware. My 84 1/2 year old mother received a phone VM at 8:15AM this morning (April 15th) notifying her that her 12:30 Endoscopy and Colonoscopy "was cancelled" and for her to call to reschedule. Upon reaching back to the office, I was told that there was a plumbing issue within the Bldg. I let the staff know that My mother waited 7 months for her appt. Does not have a bowel movement for 5 -6 days at a time, projectile vomits, had completed the FULL CLEANSING at 6 AM this morning and should be on the IMMEDIATE reschedule day. The office manager, Sandy and the Office Administrator, Lainee were sympathetic to the crisis. The Scheduling coordinator, Vicki...not so much. Put your patients first as you tout, particularly the sick and vulnerable ones!
My husband went through laxative HELL over the last 24 hours getting ready for a colonoscopy first thing in the morning. We get there and they tell us "oopsies, we left you a vm 20 minutes ago to let you know we had plumbing issues and had to cancel your appointment." Mind you we also live about 49 minutes away. The lack of preparation and lack of customer care of this office for something as simple as a maintenance issue is revolting. SHAME ON THE DOCTORS and poor management running this pathetic practice! Shame on you!!! And to make matters worse, my husband asks " do you know what I've been through over the last 24 hours? (With what little energy he had left) and the senseless front desk receptionist had the audacity to say (with an attitude) "yea, I do." I would not recommend this incompetent, unprepared, apathetic, inhuman office (doctors and staff). I cannot reiterate the disappointment I feel in their lack of patient care or what they have put us through. Shame on you for your lack of preparedness, for your lack of compassion, for your lack of humanity!! Truly shame on you!
This is an organization that is 100% efficient and effective. The prep instructions they send are thorough and clear. There are multiple ways to get in touch when necessary. There is ample communication all throughout the experience. It appears that they deal with a high volume of patients and yet you feel like you are the only one on their schedule when they are taking care of you. There was one patient who arrived while I was in the waiting room. Complete moron. Didn't even know their own phone number. Neither did their designated driver. They were being loud and disruptive. All the other patients in the area were looking irritated. Yet, the staff was very gracious and went beyond the call of duty with these idiots. The staff and doctors of this facility deserve a medal. Definitely a blessing for when you are in need.
I was lied to by the billing department. Don't come here unless you have amazing health insurance or hundreds of dollars at your disposal to pay your balance in a very short amount of time. I had a procedure here in April 2023. I was told that no one had any idea how much it would cost me until weeks after it was completed, and that I would be able to set up a payment plan that worked for me if I wasn't able to pay the balance in full at the time. I attempted to set up a payment plan with an amount that I could afford, began making monthly payments, then several months later got a call from a collections agency. Upon communicating this to the billing department I was told there was "nothing they could do." Today I got a call from a separate collections agency saying that my balance for Delaware Center for Digestive Care had also been sent there, even though I was told that this balance would not be sent. It is clear to me that low income patients are not welcome here unless they're okay with their credit potentially being damaged. I will be taking my future care elsewhere, hopefully somewhere with an honest and organized billing department. Dr. Long performed my procedure and shared some extremely stressful information with me right before I went under anesthesia. The information was important for her to share with me, however I believe it could have been delivered with much more sensitivity. Other than that, the clinical staff was great.
A new study finds you can lower cancer risk by 40 percent by changing your lifestyle, and colon cancer is one type that is most responsive to habit changes.
Read MoreColon cancer in adults younger than 50 continues to rise, but numbers may decline if young people don’t delay in seeing a doctor if they experience the symptoms of colon cancer.
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Terrible Experience! Today I show up for my appointment and there is a note on the door that they had lost power. I understand that these things happen, but no one bothered to call me ahead of time to let me know about this?!? I have been literally STARVING myself for the past two days while "prepping" for this procedure, and no one thought to call me to let me know about this cancellation?!? I will never come back to a doctor's office that treats their patients with such casual disdain. Shame on you Endoscopy Center of Delaware!