Best Gastroenterologists in Bluffton, SC

Older residents

About 1 in 4 Bluffton residents is 65 or older: 24.6% inside the town limits and 60.6% in ZIP 29909, the Sun City and Okatie side (as of 2024).

Closest to Belfair

Gastroenterology Consultants of Savannah is at 12B Arley Way, Suite 103, 0.9 mi from Belfair Towne Village and 2.8 mi from Old Town.

Sun City side

The Beaufort Memorial gastroenterology office is in the Okatie Medical Pavilion, 0.9 mi from Sun City. Novant Health Gastroenterology is at 300 New River Pkwy in Hardeeville, 1.8 mi from Sun City.

Three systems

The offices here belong to three groups: a Savannah practice, Beaufort Memorial and Novant Health. Ask which hospital or endoscopy center your gastroenterologist uses.

Emergencies

Bluffton has two 24-hour emergency rooms, both Novant Health: Tidewatch (349 Tidewatch Dr) and Parkside (8 Parkside Dr, opened July 2026).

Bluffton hospital

Beaufort Memorial Bluffton Community Hospital, with an ER, surgery and imaging, is expected to take its first patients in early 2027.

For an emergency, call 911 or go to an emergency room. Bluffton has two 24-hour ERs, Novant Health Tidewatch Emergency Department at 349 Tidewatch Dr and the Parkside ER at 8 Parkside Dr. Both are on our urgent care and ER in Bluffton page, and the hospitals near Bluffton page covers the hospitals that are coming.

Beaufort Memorial Bluffton Community Hospital, at 10 Innovation Dr, is planned with an emergency room, surgery and imaging, and expects its first patients in early 2027. Novant plans a larger hospital on Bluffton Parkway, about 2029.

Old Town and Belfair: Gastroenterology Consultants of Savannah is 2.8 miles from Old Town and 0.9 miles from Belfair Towne Village (see Belfair), in the same Arley Way building as St. Joseph’s/Candler medical offices.

Sun City and Okatie: the Beaufort Memorial office is 0.9 miles from Sun City Hilton Head, and Novant’s Hardeeville office is 1.8 miles away. With 60.6% of residents in ZIP 29909 aged 65 or older, ask early about openings. Every office here is reached by car.

Children: MUSC Children’s Health lists a pediatric GI and nutrition clinic in the Okatie Medical Pavilion; ask each office above whether it sees children.

If you are searching for a gastroenterologist in Hardeeville, SC, Novant Health Gastroenterology – Hardeeville is at 300 New River Pkwy, Building 6, Suite 11, in the same office park as several other specialists on our Bluffton doctors page. Its page says it brings care “close to where you live or work” and names no towns, and neither it nor the Beaufort Memorial page names Ridgeland as a service area. From Buckwalter Place, the Hardeeville office is 4.1 miles away, the Okatie office 2.4 and the Arley Way office 2.6. Call each for openings.

Call two or three offices in your first week and ask whether they are taking new patients, whether you need a referral, which insurance plans and Medicare they accept, how soon a first visit is, and where they do colonoscopies and endoscopies. Ask what you need to arrange for a procedure day, such as a ride home. Have your records and test results sent from your old doctor. Many plans want a referral, so start with a primary care doctor if you do not have one; the living in Bluffton guide covers the rest of settling in.

Hilton Head Island has its own gastroenterology office, Hilton Head Gastroenterology; see doctors on Hilton Head. The Bluffton and Okatie offices are the closest for most of the west side.