Family Medicine

Our family medicine team is your first point of contact for preventive care and treatment for you and your loved ones. Our patients include infants and seniors and every age in between. Our team looks forward to building lifetime relationships with you and providing complete care for you and your family.

Our team includes doctors, nurses and additional providers and support staff. We are dedicated to your family’s health. We can treat many of your most common needs directly. When specialty care is appropriate, our relationships with health system experts in all medical disciplines enable convenient, coordinated care.

The team in our family medicine office is dedicated to clinical excellence and ongoing innovation. Our doctors and nurses work collaboratively to provide the comprehensive, exemplary patient care our diverse patient population needs and deserves.

We support your basic needs, like coughs or colds or fevers, as well as a variety of more complex needs, including management of chronic illness like heart disease, effects of a stroke or hypertension, diabetes or asthma. We serve as your first point of contact and will assist you in obtaining specialty care when you or a family member needs it.

We provide a wide range of services for every age group. The focus of family medicine spans:

• Community health
• Geriatrics
• International and travel medicine
• Prenatal care
• Rural health
• Sports medicine

We offer specialty expertise in multiple areas, including sports medicine, Down syndrome and Turner syndrome.

Preventive care is important care, a key part of staying healthy instead of reacting when you’re injured or ill (though we certainly help with those needs, too). Vaccination is key to preventing avoidable and potentially very serious illnesses. Our family medicine practice provides immunizations for:

• Chickenpox
• Diphtheria
• Flu
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b)
• HPV
• Measles
• Meningococcal
• Mumps
• Pneumococcal
• Polio
• Rabies (as needed if exposed)
• Rotavirus
• Rubella
• Shingles
• Tetanus
• Whooping cough (pertussis)

Our family medicine team is committed to:

• Providing excellent care to every patient, regardless of age or health condition, and fostering a long-term relationship built on trust
• Serving as your first point of contact for any health concern
• Recognizing and responding to community needs and social determinants of health
• Teaming up with you to navigate your healthcare needs, providing primary care and supporting connections to and communications with specialists
• Providing care in the context of the whole family

As part of the region’s premier academic medical center, The University of Kansas Health System delivers superior patient care while leading and contributing to research to discover advanced treatments for the future. The balance means you receive what you need today while having options that may not be available elsewhere.

Our commitment to quality is unmatched. An example is our designation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a Level 3 patient-centered medical home. We hold ourselves to high standards – for the benefit of you and your family.

We’ve made optimization and quality improvement a consistent focus. We regularly, proactively follow up with patients to ensure we together close care gaps are closed and meet our patients’ needs.

We offer several appointment types to best meet your needs. You can see a family practice provider in person, by telehealth and sometimes even in an in-home visit.

Community health is a vital part of our mission, both in care and education. We provide numerous opportunities for people in the community to turn to us for their healthcare needs. In addition, many of our staff are involved in numerous civic organizations.

Our community health offerings include:

• BullDoc Clinic, providing free, comprehensive healthcare and education to students at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas.
• JayDoc Free Clinic, providing quality care to all individuals, regardless of income, and operated by the University of Kansas Medical Center.
• KC Care Clinic, focused on HIV care as a safety net clinic.