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Primary Care

Primary care is care provided by physicians specifically trained for and skilled in comprehensive first contact and ongoing care for persons with any undiagnosed sign, symptom, or health concern, not limited by problem origin (biological, behavioral, or social), organ system, age, gender, or diagnosis.

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Family Medicine

Family Medicine is the medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for individuals and families. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care. Unlike other specialties that are limited in scope, family medicine integrates the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences in order to treat all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease entity.

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Adult Medicine

Doctors of internal medicine focus on adult medicine and have had special study and training focusing on the prevention and treatment of adult diseases.

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Geriatric Care

Services specifically targeted to adults who are over age 55. These may include direct services, such as training in the skills of daily living, provision of adaptive aids and appliances, low vision services, family and peer counseling, or referrals to local agencies that specialize in services for older people, such as senior centers, home care agencies, geriatric medical practices, and assistive living facilities.

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Women Services

Our experienced and understanding gynecologists, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives make it easy to address sensitive issues involving women’s health needs.

Pregnancy Testing
Full laboratory tests used to detect whether a woman is pregnant.

Comprehensive Prenatal Care
During pregnancy, women should receive regular health care from an obstetrician or midwife. Services needed include dietary and lifestyle advice, weighing to ensure proper weight gain, and examination for problems of pregnancy. In cases where complications are likely, such as pregnancy after age 40 or in women with diabetes, care may be sought from an experienced specialist.

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Family Planning

Programs or services designed to assist the family in controlling reproduction by either improving or diminishing fertility.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics care is provided by physicians who care for children. Children have different health care needs, both medical and emotional, than adults. Pediatricians are trained to prevent and manage health problems in infants, children, teens and young adults.

Newborn Care
Newborn health highlights include caring for your newborn's skin, decoding your newborn's cries and promoting your newborn's development. Newborn health also extends to parents. After all, taking good care of your baby includes taking good care of yourself.

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Child Development

A child’s growth is more than just physical. Children develop, grow, and learn throughout their lives. A child’s development can be followed by monitoring milestones in speaking, playing, moving, behaving, and learning. If your child is not developing properly, there are things you can do that may help. Most of the time, a developmental problem is not something your child “will grow out of”. But with help, your child can reach his or her full potential! These services are only offered at the Maternal and Child Health Center.

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Well & Sick Childcare

Services to provide a realistic and complete clinical picture by taking responsibility for all children in a community, providing preventive and curative services, and understanding the causes and effects of child health and illness, as well as the effectiveness of services provided. Thus, the unique feature of community pediatrics is its concern for all of the population-those who remain well but need preventive services, those who have symptoms but do not receive effective care, and those who do seek medical care.

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Dental Services

Oral health is an essential component of health throughout life. Poor oral health and untreated oral diseases and conditions can have a significant impact on quality of life.

 

Pediatric Dentistry

Pediatric Dentists are concerned about the overall well-being of children. Pediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.

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Urgent Care

South Bay Family Health and Urgent Care Center provides urgent care services six days per week while linking patients with a medical home for continuity of care purposes. Services offered include the following:

- Common non-life threatening illnesses for adults and children
- Minor cuts and burns
- Sprains, strains and simple fractures
- Colds and sore throats
- Urinary tract infections
- Nausea and vomiting
- Sinus or ear infections
- Allergies
- Abdominal pain
- Fever
- “Just don’t feel good” conditions

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Immunizations

Immunizations work by stimulating the immune system, the natural disease-fighting system of the body. The healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them. Immunizations prepare the immune system to ward off a disease. To immunize against viral diseases, the virus used in the vaccine has been weakened or killed. To immunize against bacterial diseases, it is generally possible to use only a small portion of the dead bacteria to stimulate the formation of antibodies against the whole bacteria. In addition to the initial immunization process, it has been found that the effectiveness of immunizations can be improved by periodic repeat injections or "boosters."

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Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical care includes the determination of the drug needs for a given individual and the provision not only of the drugs required but also of the necessary services (before, during or after treatment) to assure optimally safe and effective therapy.

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Laboratory

Services that conduct examinations of materials derived from the human body, to provide information for the assessment of a medical condition or for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease.

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Radiology

Radiology is the branch or specialty of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and ultrasound to diagnosing and treating disease.

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Behavioral Health

San Ysidro Behavioral Health offers comprehensive outpatient mental health services to those experiencing psychological problems. Treatment is provided to children and adults who are in need of mental health services focusing on the culturally/ linguistically diverse populations of the south bay areas.

San Ysidro Behavioral Health has a professionally experienced and culturally competent staff. The multi-disciplinary team is comprised of two psychiatrists, a psychologist and a clinical social worker. Services are provided in both English and Spanish. Services include:

- Psychiatric evaluation
- Psychiatric medications, prescriptions and management
- Outpatient mental health counseling
- Crisis counseling and intervention
- Referrals to other agencies

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Social Services & Support

Provide temporary assistance to eligible individuals and families to help them with their basic needs until they can become self-sufficient. Toward that end, we administer programs which can assist people with their medical expenses and nutritional needs. The interpersonal attention that offers information, emotional relief, and teaches self-reliance.

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Health Education

Diabetes Education - The more you know about your health and proper nutrition, the easier it is for you to remain healthy. An SYHC educator is available to teach you about your health and the ways to improve it through proper care and nutrition. In many cases, your family doctor will refer you to this service.

Pregnant women often find the center's nutritional counseling program to be of great benefit in safe-guarding their own health plus the health of their soon to be born child.

SYHC provides numerous patient and community programs to help gain a better understanding of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and other health problems. The center's health educators are a valuable source of information to aid patients in disease prevention and management. They also present a number of programs designed to help patients and their family adjust to the problems of illness in the family.

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Women, Infants & Children (WIC)

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program is a program for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women and children under age five who have a nutritional risk.WIC provides information about nutrition and health to help you and your family eat well and to be healthy. The program also offers support and information about breastfeeding your baby, plus help in finding health care and other community services.

Qualified WIC participants receive special checks to buy healthy foods such as milk, juice, eggs, cheese, cereal, dry beans and peas, and peanut butter.

Call to make an appointment and find out which documents you need to bring with you. At your appointment, WIC staff will check to see if you and your family qualify.

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HIV / AIDS

San Ysidro Health Center – Casa/Para Programs
Comprehensive Health Center – Our Place

San Ysidro Health Center is theonly provider of HIV/AIDS services in the south bay and offers a continuum of on-site culturally competent, client-centered medical and social support services for people who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Healthy Steps Mobile Unit

Healthy Steps Project provides medical, dental and behavioral health screenings for children 0-5 and their families. The mission of healthy steps is to ensure school readiness by providing unmet health, well being, safety and learning needs of children ages 0-5 years old and their families.

We aim to increase family outreach and improve parent education. We are designed for early intervention in preventive medicine, oral and behavioral healthcare issues throughout our diverse community.

Healthy steps project is funded by a prop 10 grant (tobacco tax monies) through the first 5 commission of San Diego. It has a bilingual, bicultural, experienced and professional staff. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of a medical doctor, physician’s assistant, medical assistants, psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical social worker, health educator, outreach coordinator, and case managers. Services are provided in both English and Spanish. Summary Of Services Provided:

Preventive Health Services:
- Medical Screenings
- Dental Screenings
- Behavioral Health Screenings

Women's Services:
- Pregnancy Testing
- First Visit for Prenatal Care Free
- TB Skin Testing

Follow-Up Care Services:
- Follow-Up Appointments Will Be Conducted As Needed By SYHC Providers
- Free Vitamins, Free Tooth Paste and Tooth Brush

Vouchers:
- Food
- Vitamins

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How to Register as a Patient

To give you the best possible service please make an appointment.
Our health centers take payment from:

- Medi-Cal (including some health plans)

- Medicare

- Healthy Families programs

- County Medical Services

- Private and group health insurance (please call to see if we work with your insurance company)

Be sure to bring your insurance cards with you every time you visit us.

If you are not in one of these programs, we can still help you. There are other funding sources you may be able to use, including our “sliding” fee scale. (A sliding fee scale means that you pay based on how much you earn.) To meet with a patient services representative, please call (619) 662-4100.

To apply for other programs, bring all the following items that apply to you:

Driver's license or valid I.D. Proof of residency. (You can use a recent gas/electric or telephone bill or a rent/mortgage payment with your name and address.) A recent paycheck stub Any health care id cards you have: Medi-Cal, Medicare, employer health plan. Offered at these locations