{"id":4005,"date":"2017-11-14T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:05:40","slug":"gastro-hep-expands-its-services-and-garners-recognition-for-clinical-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/2017\/11\/14\/gastro-hep-expands-its-services-and-garners-recognition-for-clinical-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastro-Hep Expands Its Services \u2014 and Garners Recognition for Clinical Excellence and Community Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4008 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sign for UVA Endoscopy on Monroe Lane\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2017\/11\/enscopy-small-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Have you been keeping up with the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/gastroenterology-hepatology\/\">Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s recent milestones? The division (\u201cGI\u201d) and its clinical arm, the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uvahealth.com\/services\/digestive-health\">UVA Digestive Health Center<\/a><\/strong>, has been expanding its clinical services and garnering awards for quality of care and community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the division <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/uvasomrestriction\/public\/2017\/11\/06\/uva-gastroenterology-wins-2017-scopy-award-from-acg\/\">won a 2017 \u201cSCOPY\u201d award from the American College of Gastroenterology<\/a><\/strong>, accepted by GI&#8217;s <strong>Amy Doran, MD,<\/strong> on behalf of the\u00a0division, in the category of \u201c<strong>Best Coordinated Community Health Intervention<\/strong>\u201d for its program \u201cReaching Every Corner of Virginia with Coordinated Public Health Effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/uvasomrestriction\/public\/2017\/11\/06\/gastro-hep-is-expanding-and-garnering-recognition-for-clinical-excellence\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been keeping up with the\u00a0Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology\u2018s recent milestones? The division (\u201cGI\u201d) and its clinical arm, the\u00a0UVA Digestive Health Center, has been expanding its clinical services and garnering awards for quality of care and community outreach. Most recently, the division won a 2017 \u201cSCOPY\u201d award from the American College of Gastroenterology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","tag-delete"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gastro-Hep Expands Its Services \u2014 and Garners Recognition for Clinical Excellence and Community Outreach - Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/2017\/11\/14\/gastro-hep-expands-its-services-and-garners-recognition-for-clinical-excellence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gastro-Hep Expands Its Services \u2014 and Garners Recognition for Clinical Excellence and Community Outreach - Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you been keeping up with the\u00a0Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology\u2018s recent milestones? 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