What is family medicine?
Family medicine is a branch of primary care that focuses on the health and wellness of your entire family, from newborn to old age. Your family medicine provider is your main advocate for prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
The primary objectives of your family medicine provider are:
- Preventive care oversight and planning
- Diagnosis and treatment of acute injuries or conditions
- Early detection and long-term management of chronic disease
- Coordination with an entire health care team
In planning your health care, family medicine providers think long-term, keeping more than just your current health issues in mind. They strive to support healthy lifestyles, starting at birth, that allow you to avoid disease and prevent long-term complications from common illnesses.
What services do family medicine providers offer?
Services provided by your family medicine provider focus on the health maintenance stage of development, disease prevention and early detection, and management of acute and chronic illness.
Some services offered include:
- Well newborn, infant, and child visits
- Well-woman visits
- Annual physicals
- Lab and diagnostic studies
- Cancer screenings
- Prostate and breast exams
- Birth control and vasectomies
- Weight and nutrition counseling
- Mental health evaluation
- Skin assessment
- Immunizations
- Medication and supplement management
Your family medicine provider offers services to support acute and chronic illness, including diabetic counseling, cholesterol checks, and blood pressure monitoring. They also coordinate care with other specialties, if needed.
How can family medicine support lifelong health?
To support lifelong health, Monarque Health & Wellness takes an approach to your health care that initially focuses on prevention. It’s always easier to prevent disease than to treat it.
Their preventive health care plan includes goals in four main areas:
- Adhering to recommended health guidelines for screenings
- Performing annual metabolic checks
- Assessing skin yearly for signs of skin cancer
- Completing a comprehensive annual wellness exam
Your family medicine providers at Monarque Health & Wellness desire to know you and your family, and to incorporate your goals and plans into your health care. They strive to be part of your lifelong pursuit of health and wellness, whatever that entails for you.
To make the caring team at Monarque Health & Wellness a part of your family, call or book an appointment online today.
