Family Medicine Vancouver WA

Preventive Care

Our providers of Family Medicine in Vancouver WA  are all board certified and provide primary care for all ages, from birth to adults. Our wellness care includes newborn visits, well child care, immunizations, sports physicals, and adult preventative medicine, and annual routine physicals. Our trained staff also performs routine lab tests and nurse treatment.

Same Day Services

At Family Wellness Center, our family medicine in Vancouver WA providers have several same day appointments available for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries such as upper respiratory infections & viruses, allergic reactions, lacerations, strains, and bumps & bruises. 

Special Procedures & Testing

As part of our family medicine in Vancouver WA team, individual physicians perform specialized procedures in our sterile procedure rooms such as circumcisions on newborns, endoscopic biopsies, and skin lesion removals. For the health & wellness of our patients we offer spirometry testing, EKG's, holter monitoring, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, and PAD testing, as well as an onsite laboratory for diagnostic lab tests.

Education

Our medical staff also offers complete diabetic diagnosis, treatment, and education services. On occasion, we offer educational seminars based on the needs of our patients in conjunction with local specialists.

Sprig Health

In April 2012, Family Wellness Center became a provider for Sprig Health.  We are bringing you access to doctor services at a fair price if you have little or no insurance and want to be a self pay patient.  If you make an appointment through Sprig Health, prices are lower because our office does not deal with any insurance paperwork.  You pay ahead electronically on the Sprig Health website, and the savings are passed on to you.  For more information and to create an online Sprig Health account, go to  http://www.sprighealth.com/clinics/family-wellness-center/family-wellness-center. 

Chronic Pain Management

On January 2, 2012 the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission passed new rules for the management of chronic noncancer pain.   The 2010 Legislature passed a bill directing five boards and commissions to adopt rules concerning management of chronic, noncancer pain (CNCP).  CNCP is generally defined as pain present for at least 6 months; lasting longer than the expected time to tissue healing or resolution of the disease process; or pain due to a condition where there is ongoing pain perception or from a damaged nerve. 

The intent of the bill is to equip physicians with the best practices in pain management and keep patients safe.  Nothing should change for the majority of patients.  Under certain circumstances, our primary care providers may seek consultation from a pain specialist.  The pain specialist would not care for the patient on a regular basis, only provide consultation. 

The role of the patient is to see their primary care physician with reasonable expectations.  The patient and the PCP will need to come up with a comprehensive treatment plan for the patient and for the pain, with clearly defined goals for everyday functioning that can be reasonably met.  Prescription pain medications (controlled substances) should only be part of a treatment plan and exercise should be a part of the treatment plan as well.  It is the patient's responsibility to keep these medications secure in the home and while the patient travels to avoid unintentional poisoning. 

For more information and resources, please refer to the website:  Medical.Pain.Rules@doh.wa.gov

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