Primary Care
As your trusted health care partner, your primary care doctor helps you navigate you and your family’s health throughout the different stages of life.
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Services and specialties
Primary care providers can specialize in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. MercyOne offers a wide range of primary care including:
- Annual wellness visits
- Cancer screenings
- Post hospitalization discharge care
- Growth development exams
- Preventive care
- Referrals to specialists as needed
- Routine health screenings
- Treatment of occasional and on-going illnesses
- Vaccinations
Family medicine
Family medicine providers are generalists, addressing health needs including immunizations, sprains, urgent care and more. They see patients of all ages: from newborn babies to older adults, in-person and via telehealth.
Internal medicine
Internal medicine providers, or internists, see patients aged 18 years and older, usually providing care if you have multiple chronic diseases or complicated conditions.
Pediatrics
While other primary care providers see adults, pediatrics is focused on children. Pediatricians are focused on children aged 21 or younger and provide a wide range of care including growth disorders, learning and behavioral challenges, chronic disease management along with general immunizations and well-child exams.
Primary care appointments
For non-urgent health concerns and regular health maintenance, schedule an appointment at your provider’s office. Your primary care provider cares for your day-to-day health care, routine and preventive care and treatment of ongoing health needs. Consider an appointment for:
- Allergies.
- Annual checkup.
- Anxiety.
- Asthma.
- Bronchitis.
- Cold and flu symptoms.
- Depression.
- Diabetes.
- Ear pain.
- Growth disorders.
- Health maintenance exam.
- High blood pressure.
- Irritable bowel syndrome.
- Knee, hip and joint pain.
- Lower back pain.
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Obesity.
- Osteoporosis.
- Pelvic wellness.
- Sore throat.
- Sunburns.
- Tooth pain.
When you need to be seen immediately for medical needs, but it is not life-threatening, visit an urgent care location. With evening and weekend hours, you can see a provider for:
- Acute abdominal pain.
- Cold and flu symptoms.
- Ear pain.
- Fever.
- Pink eye.
- Rashes, hives, abscess and superficial burns.
- Skin laceration.
- Sore throat and strep throat.
- Sprains, strains and stitches.
- Upper respiratory infections
- Urinary tract infection.
- Vomiting or diarrhea.
- Worsening headache.
A telehealth appointment allows you to visit with your primary care provider through a secure, HIPAA compliant video chat without leaving the comfort and security of your home. Over a telehealth appointment, your provider can diagnose, recommend further testing and treatment options and prescribe medication.
If you are experiencing a serious injury or sever illness, you should go to your local emergency department. Call 911 for any life-threatening emergency like chest pain, drug overdose or poisoning, heart attack symptoms and severe allergic reactions.
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