Primary care is the promotion of good health, disease prevention, health maintenance, counseling, patient education, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses. Primary care is performed and managed by a health care provider often collaborating with other health professionals.
Primary care provides patient support in the health care system to accomplish cost-effective care by coordination of health care services. Primary care promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care.
We often care for patients with:
- Coughs
- Colds
- Flu
- School Physicals,
- Well Woman Visits
- Hypertension
- High Cholesterol
- Vaccinations
- DOT Physicals
- …and more