The values, personnel, and organization of Family Health Care, PC are all crucial to our two-stage approach to health care. Additionally, we believe that our quality of care benefits from our ability to develop long-term relationships with our clients. These factors allow us to ensure that your health care reflects the values and priorities that guide your life.

Level One: Acute Care and Crisis Intervention
Most people first come to us for needs that are new, acute, or impermanent, such as a skin rash, a cold, or a sprain. These incidents rarely impact long-term health. However, if the cold is related to asthma, the sprain to arthritis, or the rash to a medication, these new illnesses could aggravate a long-term problem. Acute illnesses such as these form the first stage of our health care process. Some patients choose to see us only for this type of event.

Level Two: Health Maintenance
A complete health evaluation with regular updates, however, provides a deeper understanding of one’s larger health and wellness issues. With such an overview, we can better ensure that connections like those above are not overlooked.

Routine Health Maintenance allows us to assess one’s overall health on a scheduled basis, related to age throughout one’s lifetime. This phase helps us prevent health problems before they occur and detect unrecognized health conditions at an early stage, when a treatment plan can still prevent future conplications. A complete personal health database and the creation or revision of a care plan for existing or potential health conditions result from Routine Health Maintenance visits.

Special Health Maintenance visits are focused on limited or temporary health care, such as for standard early detection exams (Pap smears, prostate screenings, premarital exams) or institutional (school, work, sports) or insurance needs.

The Regular Review is a Health Maintenance visit for the management of treatment plans for specific conditions. These visits are scheduled at regular intervals to monitor treatment results, adjust protocols, check for adverse effects of treatment, and provide emotional support. Regular Review visits focus on conditions with on-going health care needs, such as testing, medications, or specialist consultation.

Our multi-tiered style of treatment is our means of ensuring the best health possible for our long-term patients. We believe real health care, with your long-term well-being at its core, is a lot more than writing a prescription for a symptom.