Guide to Services

Outpatient care coordination involves deliberately sharing, retrieving, and organizing information among all the participants concerned with your care to achieve more effective and safer outcomes. This service entails helping you understand all your treatment options, including the benefits and risks, and obtaining second opinions as needed.

Care for an illness, injury or condition that can be addressed appropriately in an outpatient office, but not so severe that it requires emergency room care.

An integrated care approach to managing illness — e.g., high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, heart disease, osteoporosis — which includes office visits, monitoring for disease progression and complications, tracking response to treatment and patient education. The goal is to improve your quality of life and prevent or minimize the effects of a disease.

To provide convenient and comprehensive care, I perform many common diagnostic procedures in the office, e.g., urinalysis, pap smear, biopsies.

We provide the following vaccines for children: Tdap, Hib, Varicella, MMR, MMRV, rotavirus, Dtap, polio, and the various combinations of these. [1] We also provide Gardasil.

Care advocacy is support for you and your family that helps and empowers you when you require care in an emergency department or hospital. Advocacy involves speaking with the physician in charge of your care and sharing your pertinent history to achieve optimal outcomes. I will help you understand proposed evaluation options, results from diagnostic testing, and treatment options.

I am available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Should an urgent need or an emergency arise, please call the office to speak with me — after hours, calls will be forwarded to my cell phone. If I think that you need immediate attention, you will be directed to the nearest emergency department, and I will discuss your care with the emergency room physician. If you do not require urgent attention, I will provide advice over the phone and arrange for a follow-up visit in our office as soon as possible. If I will be unavailable, I will make arrangements for a covering physician to be available to you.

Routine health care that includes office visits, recommendations regarding appropriate screening tests, and counseling to prevent illnesses, disease, or other health problems.

For adults, we provide only the standard seasonal flu vaccine. DME refers to supplies ordered by a health care clinician for everyday or extended use. I provide selected supplies, e.g., crutches, splints, and slings.

Venipuncture, also known as a blood draw or phlebotomy, is when someone uses a needle to take blood from a vein, usually in your arm. This is an important tool for diagnosing and monitoring many medical conditions. Examples of commonly performed tests: complete blood cell count, CBC, comprehensive metabolic panel, CMP, thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH, lipid panel.