Many people already know that a sick visit is when you need medical assistance for an illness outside your ordinary functioning. What many must learn how necessary a well-care visit is for health and wellness.
Our highly trained staff at Associates in Family Practice, located in Hagerman, Wendell, and Gooding, ID, are awaiting your scheduled visit to talk to you about your preventative care routine.
What is a Wellness Visit?
Unfortunately, as you age, you may forget to schedule a well-care visit with our doctors as part of your routine medical care. Taking a precautionary approach to your health should be seen as routine. Most insurance carriers and Medicare include a wellness visit yearly as a must to stay in compliance with your insurance.
Associates in Family Practice, located in Hagerman, Wendell, and Gooding, ID view a wellness visit as any other visit to our doctor's office. Things that may happen during your visit are a routine medical question and answer session with our doctor.
If you have any physical, mental health, or emotional concerns, this is the time to voice them to our doctor. You typically get more time to discuss issues at a wellness visit. Our doctors will ask for a complete medical history, including hereditary conditions.
Our doctors will also perform a complete physical, checking vital signs, and will perform behavioral and mental health screenings for children. At the end of your visit, our doctors may order other routine tests and screenings, such as:
- Blood Work
We may order a complete metabolic panel or total blood count to see how your body functions internally.
- Immunizations
Our doctors may order yearly precautionary immunizations to keep you healthy, such as pneumonia or influenza vaccinations.
- Screenings
Our doctors may order medical tests like cholesterol or heart disease screenings if you or your family have a history of such diseases.
- Age Sensitive Testing
As you age, our doctors may order additional testing, such as a colonoscopy or a mammogram. Individuals, in general, have a higher risk of problems as they age.
Our doctors may want to see you back in a few weeks when they receive your test results. Our doctors prefer to review test results with you and treat any new or current medical conditions if a test returns abnormal.
It is important to schedule your yearly wellness visit or health screening visits today with our excellent staff of medical doctors located at Associates in Family Practice at one of our three office locations in Hagerman, at 208-837-6161, Wendell, at 208-536-5900, and Gooding, ID, at 208-934-5900.
Our doctors consider preventative care as the key to healthy living.