Capital Digestive To Open Bigger Pathology Lab

Capital Digestive Care (Silver Spring, MD) has announced plans to relocate and expand its pathology lab to Silver Spring, Maryland. The new lab will be 21,000 square feet and is expected to open in early 2022. In addition, the new lab will become a Roche Diagnostics Center of Excellence and will be expanding its clinical diagnostics testing menu. Capital Digestive Care’s current lab is CAP accredited and located in Bowie, Maryland. Its Medical Director Jeffrey Baybick, MD, had founded an independent pathology lab (Bay Labs) in 2004 that was merged into Capital Digestive Care in 2009. Capital Digestive Care is the largest private practice gastroenterology group in the Mid-Atlantic. The group has 20+ offices in the greater Washington, DC area and includes more than 80 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, seeing 75,000+ patients and performing 35,000+ colonoscopies per year.