Founded more than four decades ago, the Spokane Digestive Center announced the recent opening of its new and first-ever Spokane Valley location.

The new location occupies office space in a first-floor suite at 12409 E. Mission, near the intersection of East Mission Avenue and North Pines Road and northwest of MultiCare Valley Hospital.

“After 43 years of providing excellent hepatology and gastroenterology in downtown Spokane, Spokane Digestive is pleased to announce we’re expanding in our new office,” Dr. Lee Jayson Stone says in a press release.

Officials at the clinic couldn’t be reached for additional comment.

The press release says the new clinic will operate with nine employees, including a physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, and a rotation of certified gastroenterology physicians.

Spokane Digestive Center’s downtown Spokane location is located on the sixth floor of the Sacred Heart Doctor’s Building, at 105 W. Eighth. The center bills itself as an independent, patient-centered gastroenterology practice.

The center provides outpatient therapeutic and diagnostic endoscopic services such as colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD).