The Digestive Health Institute, Providence Health & Services

Providence Health & Services is the third largest non-profit health system in the country and the largest digestive health provider in the Northwest. Providence has brought together providers and organizations to develop a virtual digestive health institute that crosses the entire system. The Institute’s focus is to create a network of excellence that delivers consistent quality, predictable cost experience to all the communities and patients Providence serves. The Institute creates connections for providers to refer a patient needing more specialized services to a quaternary facility within the system, making the patient experience easier. And the size of the Institute gets Providence on the short list to participate in studies and clinical trials with the CDC and FDA and vendors as well. The bottomline is that the Digestive Health Institute takes a coordinated and collaborative system-wide approach to delivering the best care to all patients, creating healthier communities.