Comprehensive Preventative Medicine 

Volunteer Family Medicine & Urgent Care will develop a comprehensive age based preventative plan for you. This plan will include recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Schedule any needed annual health screenings with us.

You know you need to visit a doctor when you get sick or injured, but do you know who you should see to prevent the disease from developing in the first place? The answer is a preventive medicine physician – Our providers are experienced in helping patients take a proactive approach rather than the traditional reactive approach to medicine.

As preventive medical health center, we focus on helping patients to maintain total health and wellness actively. For example, if you had a screening for diabetes and your blood-glucose numbers were high, the doctor would give you specific steps to take (such as dietary changes) to prevent diabetes from developing. If you did not develop diabetes, later on, that is what a preventive medicine physician does.


Prevention is the key here, so nutrition, maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding stress as much as possible, and getting enough exercise is this doctor’s focus for you.

Common Preventive Care Conditions:



Adult Health Exams, Birth Control Advice, Scheduling Colonoscopy, Diabetes Screening,

Exercise Advice, Flu Shots, High Blood Pressure Screening, High Cholesterol Screening,

Medicare Annual Wellness Visits, Nutrition Advice, Scheduling Mammograms, Pap Smears,

Pre-employment Physicals & Urine Drug Screening, Prostate Cancer Screening, Welcome to

Medicare Exams, Weight Management, Well baby physicals, Well Child physicals, Screening for

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Smoking Cessation, Suicide Prevention Advice, Tuberculosis

Screening, and Vaccination Recommendations.

Screening Patients for Early Signs of Illnesses

Screening is essential to detect potential problems early, so they can be treated before they can develop into more serious conditions. A few common screening tests include:

  • Cholesterol: Keeping your good cholesterol (HDL) high and your bad cholesterol (LDL) low can help to prevent cardiovascular disease.
  • Fecal occult blood test: This is done to identify signs of colorectal cancer.
  • Pap smear test: A gynecologist usually performs this test to check for certain cellular changes that can indicate the presence or risk of cervical cancer. If you are a woman and you do not have an OB/GYN, your preventive medicine physician’s office can perform this test for you.
  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: This is a blood test conducted to identify and prevent benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer in men.
  • Mammogram: This is a unique X-ray technology performed on women to screen for breast cancer.
  • Colonoscopy: This is one of the only types of screening tests that are also preventive. Colonoscopy screens for colon cancer and to physically remove any colon polyps (which can be precancerous) that are found during the test.
  • Blood glucose test: This blood test is screened for signs of diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Advice to Correct Unhealthy Habits

Your preventive medicine physician will counsel you in how to correct certain unhealthy habits and lifestyle choices. This may relate to your nutrition, diet, physical activity, weight, and habits such as smoking and drinking.

Lifestyle changes and dietary modifications can help prevent conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

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