fbpx
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
    • Get Home Delivery
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Customer Support
    • Submit A News Tip
    • Where’s My Paper?
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
Hudson Valley One
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
Hudson Valley One
No Result
View All Result

HV Gastroenterology can now do procedures in Woodstock office

by Paul Smart
June 14, 2017
in Health
0
HV Gastroenterology can now do procedures in Woodstock office

(Photo by Dion Ogust)

(Photo by Dion Ogust)

One of the key facts of life over the age of 50 is the need to get colonoscopies every ten years, and on an even more regular schedule as one ages over 65. And as anyone of such an age who’s undergone the fascinating procedure certainly knows, it’s something you need to be driven to and picked up from, given the role anesthesiology thankfully plays in it all these days.

Which makes the news that Hudson Valley Gastroenterology is handling colonoscopies at its office on Tinker Street, along with upper endoscopy procedures involving reflux and other common ailments, welcome news to the practice’s many patients living in, as well as north and west of Woodstock.

“We did procedures in the office in the 1990s when I first arrived here but then we decided to consolidate our practice in our Kingston office after the state changed its accreditation standards for office suites,” noted Hudson Valley Gastroenterology’s Woodstock-based Dr. Kevin Dodds, who moved to the Hudson Valley, and the practice, in 1997. “Eventually we took on a third and fourth practitioner and had the manpower and patient numbers to move back to Woodstock, which happened two to three years ago.”

Now, Dodd continued, he’s working two days a week at the Tinker Street office, which had been a private home before its renovation for medical purposes was completed in 1996. With a staff that includes an anesthesiologist, two nurses and two medical technicians handling between 13 and 15 procedures a day, for a total of approximately 30 each week, he and his Kingston-based partners Dr. Michael Steckman, Dr. Ari Goldstein and Dr. Daniel Blachman have found the decision to ramp up Woodstock as key to their practice as their work with Kingston’s HealthAlliance hospitals, as well as Margaretville Hospital, where Dr. Dodd is also affiliated.
“This was and remains an underserved market,” Dr. Dodd continued when asked how the first decision to renovate a home on Tinker Street came about. “There’s been a gap in coverage here; we’d long noticed how many of our patients were from the Woodstock area.”

Now, Hudson valley Gastroenterology’s Woodstock office sees patients from the Greene County Mountaintop and Margaretville areas, as well as Olive, Hurley and Woodstock itself.

 

Working in town 

The actual accreditation involved updating of equipment, recordkeeping and other elements of the practice to meet the guidelines for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

“It’s great working in town, being that I live here,” Dr. Dodd added. “We’re getting good responses on our surveys, and it’s been very nice working with the local business community, from getting our lunches around town to more recently sending patients over to Nancy’s for ice cream after a procedure.”

Dr. Dodd made sure to point out recommendations that everyone get screened for colon and other cancers through colonoscopy and the other procedures Hudson Valley Gastroenterology perform.

“It’s a life saving procedure,” he said. “If you’re age 50 and up just do it.”

Which now that one can do it right in town, should make any excuses that much harder to muster.

For scheduling and other information, visit www.hvgpc.com or call 331-8222.

Before you click away... grab a free month of HV1. Get unlimited access. Get the news you've been missing. Get connected to your community. Keep local journalism alive at $5/mo., or cancel anytime. And enjoy summer!
- Geddy Sveikauskas, Publisher
Previous Post

How to behave now that you’re upstate: A guide for citiots

Next Post

A judicial trailblazer for women, retiring Justice Karen Peters reflects

Paul Smart

Related Posts

A sauna delivered to your door?
Celebrations

A sauna delivered to your door?

August 14, 2022
Ulster County reports first confirmed case of Monkeypox
Health

Ulster County reports first confirmed case of Monkeypox

August 6, 2022
Blood donors get a chance to win gas for a year
Community

Blood donors get a chance to win gas for a year

July 29, 2022
NYS Department for the Aging launches companion robot program
Health

NYS Department for the Aging launches companion robot program

July 1, 2022
Spring allergies
Health

Spring allergies

June 2, 2022
Eating order executed in New Paltz
General News

Eating order executed in New Paltz

May 22, 2022
Next Post
A judicial trailblazer for women, retiring Justice Karen Peters reflects

A judicial trailblazer for women, retiring Justice Karen Peters reflects

Trending News

  • Sawyer Ice Cream is your grandfather’s shake shack 1.1k views
  • Phony crosswalk covered over 1k views
  • City of Kingston raises drought emergency to Stage II 0.9k views
  • Dutchess exec Molinaro challenges Ryan in special election for congress 831 views
  • Battery maker Zinc8 plans manufacturing at former IBM plant 623 views







Latest HV1 Podcast

Weather

Kingston
◉
75°
Cloudy
6:06 am7:53 pm EDT
Feels like: 75°F
Wind: 5mph N
Humidity: 57%
Pressure: 30.01"Hg
UV index: 4
ThuFriSat
86/59°F
90/63°F
88/63°F
Weather forecast Kingston, New York ▸

Ulster County COVID-19 Active Cases

Subscribe

Independent. Local. Substantive. Subscribe now.

  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Contact Us
    • Customer Support
    • Advertise
    • Submit A News Tip
  • Print Edition
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
    • Where’s My Paper
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Log In
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing