Family Medicine

Types of Care Provided

• Acute Care: Same-day and next-day visits are available by appointment; family medicine faculty physician is available for medical urgencies and emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays
• Hospital Care: If hospitalization is required, patients are provided care by the family medicine inpatient team
• Preventive Care: Offers comprehensive health assessments for the entire family to include well-baby, well-child, adult, sports and school pre-participation, well-woman exams, and health behavior counseling; these assessments include child and adult immunization management; skin, colorectal and breast cancer screening; and other evaluations
• Chronic Disease Evaluation and Management: Provides management of chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, asthma and osteoarthritis and engages patients in self-management activities
• Procedures: Audiology and pulmonary function testing and EKG services
• Perinatal, Women, and Child Services: Prenatal, obstetrics, newborn, routine well-baby and child services with several physician providers emphasizing comprehensive women's health services
• Laboratory: An on-site laboratory provides phlebotomy services and performs routine office-based studies with immediate access to the hospital laboratory for more extensive testing

Subspecialties:

• Geriatrics
• Chronic disease management
• Pharmacotherapeutics
• Wellness
• Sports medicine
• Osteopathic medicine
• Student health
• Family medicine obstetrical care
• Women’s health
• Pediatric care
• Wellness/preventive services

Family Medicine is recognized as a Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private organization dedicated to improving health care quality. 

Patient Centered Medical Home is a health care setting that improves partnerships between patients and their personal physician(s), and, when appropriate, the patient’s family. This concept includes accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective care and offering our patients:

• Access and communication
• Patient tracking and registry functions
• Care management
• Patient self-management and support
• Electronic prescribing
• Test tracking
• Referral tracking
• Performance reporting and improvement
• advanced electronic communication

Translation services are available for a variety of languages, and several family medicine faculty physicians are fluent in Spanish.

The mission of the Family Medicine Patient Advisory Council is to partner with the clinic staff to improve the environment, ensure safety, protect privacy and deliver aide in the delivery of quality patient care. To find out more information on how you could serve on this council, please contact PFCC@augusta.edu.