Primary and specialty care for everyday health
Ascension Medical Group St. Vincent - Salem Primary & Specialty Care in Salem, Indiana, provides primary care services for residents of Washington and surrounding counties. We listen to understand your health concerns. The health of you and your family is our priority. Our doctors and care teams specialize in family medicine, a type of primary care that provides ongoing healthcare for patients of all ages.
Primary care for the entire family
At Ascension, our family medicine team provides compassionate, personalized care for every member of your family. Whether you have an acute illness, or a more complex health concern, we help our patients stay healthy in body, mind and spirit.
Our care team takes the time to know you and your family and to learn about your family’s health history. This information is important to help identify health risk factors. In addition to caring for individual acute illness and injury, we provide services to help promote better family health, including:
- Adolescent medicine
- Adult (senior) medical care, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol
- Health prevention and dietary guidance
- Pediatric well-child care and immunizations
- Physicals: Annual, school, sports, DOT/CDL
- Screening tests
- Women’s health services, including gynecological exams, Pap tests, biopsies and family planning
Gastroenterology and digestive health care
When bloating, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, cramping or stomach pain won’t go away, talk with a gastroenterologist (GI doctor) at Ascension Medical Group St Vincent - Salem Primary Care and Specialty Care in Salem, Indiana. We deliver personalized care for conditions that affect the entire digestive tract from your throat to your colon and everything in between. With diagnostic lab and imaging tests, colonoscopy, and endoscopic camera procedures, your doctor diagnoses and treats GI conditions. Your GI doctor and care team start by listening to understand you and your health concerns. Then, we work with you to create a care plan that’s right for you.
Digestive health conditions affect your physical and emotional health. GI distress often disrupts how, what and when you eat. Your gastroenterology doctor provides treatment options and advanced care for a range of digestive health conditions, including:
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Colon cancer screening of polyps
- Crohn’s disease
- Gallbladder disease
- GI cancers (including colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and stomach cancer)
- Gluten and food allergies
- Hepatitis C
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Leaky gut
- Reflux (GERD)
- Stomach ulcers
Colonoscopies can help detect cancer
Getting regular colon screenings, such as a colonoscopy, may help find polyps and cancer early, when they are most treatable. When polyps and cancer are found early, there may be more options for treatment too. We recommend men and women get their first colonoscopy at age 45. You may need to get a colonoscopy earlier if you have a personal or family history of polyps or colon cancer, or if you have symptoms such as:
- Abdominal pain or discomfort
- Change in bowel habits
- Rectal bleeding
- Unexplained weight loss
Specialty care for bladder and prostate health
Our urologists specialize in the diagnosis and care of bladder and prostate disorders in men and women. We are also men’s health specialists for male reproductive disorders. We provide genitourinary diagnostic tests and both surgical and non-surgical care options. Urologists are part of our cancer care services and lead our prostate cancer screening and treatment programs.
We focus on care for:
- Bladder cancer and other conditions
- Blood in urine
- Enlarged prostate (BPH)
- Erectile dysfunction
- Kidney stones
- Low testosterone
- Overactive bladder (urinary frequency or incontinence)
- Prostate cancer, PSA screening test
- Sexual dysfunction
- Testicular cancer
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
Your urologic care team includes urogynecology doctors for female pelvic health concerns. We also provide pediatric urologic care for children who have started puberty.
