Manage your family’s appointments more easily with the Ascension One app and online account
Personalized care for digestive health conditions
When bloating, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, cramping or stomach pain won’t go away, talk with a gastroenterologist (GI) doctor at Highpoint Gastroenterology and Liver Disease with Ascension Saint Thomas in Gallatin, Tennessee. Care teams 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, work with you to create a care plan that’s right for you.
Gastroenterology and digestive health care
Digestive health conditions affect your physical and emotional health. Digestive disorders often disrupt how, what and when you eat. Your gastroenterologist provides treatment options and advanced care for a range of digestive health conditions, including:
- Abdominal or stomach pain
- Barrett’s Esophagus
- Colorectal cancer screening
- Crohn’s disease
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Heartburn
- Hemorrhoids
- Hepatitis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Nausea and vomiting
- Swallowing difficulty
- Unexplained weight loss
- Ulcerative colitis
- Ulcers
GI doctors and care teams also provide nutrition counseling and medical nutrition therapy.
Colonoscopies can help detect cancer
Getting regular colon screenings, such as a colonoscopy, may help detect polyps and cancer early, when they are most treatable. When polyps and cancer are found early, more treatment options may be available. It is recommended that men and women have their first colonoscopy at age 45. An earlier colonoscopy may be needed if there is a personal or family history of polyps or colon cancer, or if symptoms such as the following are present:
- Abdominal pain or discomfort
- Change in bowel habits
- Rectal bleeding
- Unexplained weight loss
About Highpoint Health System
Highpoint Health System is a jointly owned regional health system with Ascension Saint Thomas and Lifepoint Health that includes Highpoint Health – Sumner and Highpoint Health – Sumner Station in Gallatin, Highpoint Health – Trousdale in Hartsville, Highpoint Health – Riverview in Carthage and more than 15 affiliated clinics and sites of care. The healthcare system's partnership with Ascension Saint Thomas brings together the organizations’ clinical excellence, best practices and talented caregivers to collaborate in new ways that improve access to clinical programs and specialty care for patients and communities while expanding access to high-quality care and services in Northern Middle Tennessee.
