Ward 86 Outpatient Services/Perinatal Services

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Sponsor: City and County of San Francisco

Location(s): United States

Description

The Family Health Center (FHC), including the Refugee Medical Clinic, provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary health care services to patients along a continuum of care which includes health promotion, disease prevention, urgent care, continuity ambulatory care services and specialty clinics (prenatal, diabetes.) Care is delivered within a primary care continuity provider model, that maximizes health care resources. This coordinated, comprehensive approach incorporates patient education, counseling, and the selective use of diagnostic, screening and therapeutic services directed toward health maintenance and early diagnosis and treatment of illness.

The FHC provides the full scope of primary care services for children, adolescents, adults, elderly and homebound patients. Our services include continuity and urgent care for all ages, prenatal care and perinatal case management, family planning, HIV family clinic, well-child care, minor surgery, mental health services, social services, substance abuse counseling, nutrition consultation, diabetes education and case management, nurse case management and pharmacist consultation.