Triage Family Medicine
Let's figure out what
you actually need.
Answer three plain-language questions and we'll recommend the right visit — no medical jargon, no guessing.
1 Doctor
Same physician every visit
4+ Ages
Newborns to grandparents
24h
Clinical response time
"Every question below is one I've heard in this office. I wrote the answers the way I'd explain them to you in the exam room — not the way they appear in a pamphlet."
— Dr. Elena Vasquez, MD · Founder, Triage Family Medicine
01 — Preventive Care
Wellness Visits & Annual Physicals
Most of what I catch in an annual physical, my patient had no idea was coming.
A yearly visit isn't about being sick — it's a baseline. Blood pressure creeps up slowly. Cholesterol shifts over years. Mood changes get normalized. An annual physical is the one hour where we look at the whole picture instead of reacting to a single symptom. For patients over 40, we often catch pre-diabetes, thyroid changes, or cardiovascular risk factors years before they cause symptoms — and years before they become expensive to treat.
"I came in for a routine physical and left knowing I had borderline high blood pressure. Two months later it was under control. My doctor caught it before I even felt anything."
— Marcus T., patient since 2021
Screening schedules are confusing because they weren't designed to be patient-friendly — I'll tell you exactly what applies to you.
Colonoscopies start at 45 for average-risk patients. Mammograms at 40 for most women. Lung cancer screening for smokers 50+. Bone density for women post-menopause. Skin checks annually if you have a family history. The list sounds overwhelming in a pamphlet, but in practice it's a 10-minute conversation where we map your history and your risk and build a schedule that makes sense — not a one-size-fits-all checklist.
Book a Screening Review02 — Family Medicine
Caring for Your Whole Family
Yes — we actually built our scheduling system specifically to make this possible.
We offer family block appointments: 90-minute slots where one parent can bring two kids and also address their own concerns. It's not common in family medicine anymore, but it's exactly why this practice exists. When I know your daughter's asthma history and your husband's anxiety history and your own blood pressure trends, I can see patterns a specialist never would — and I can catch things that fall through the cracks between doctors.
"We did a family block appointment when we first moved here — all four of us in one visit. The doctor remembered every single detail at our next visit six months later."
— Priya and David K., patients since 2023
You don't have to — but continuity across a family's health history is genuinely valuable.
If your child's pediatrician is excellent, keep them. But there are real advantages to one doctor knowing your family: genetic risk factors flow naturally into conversations, behavioral patterns across siblings become visible, and when your child transitions to adult care in their late teens, the handoff is seamless because the chart has always been here. For families managing inherited conditions like heart disease, diabetes, or mental health history, this continuity isn't just convenient — it's clinically meaningful.
Schedule a Family Consultation03 — Chronic Disease
Managing Ongoing Health Conditions
It's not a problem yet — but it becomes one when nobody is looking at all three medications at the same time.
Drug interactions don't always show up in a single specialist's system. A cardiologist prescribes a beta-blocker. An endocrinologist adjusts your metformin. Neither of them knows what the other changed. I do — because I'm the one who sees the full picture. Medication reconciliation is one of the most undervalued parts of primary care, and it prevents more hospitalizations than most people realize. If you're managing multiple conditions across multiple providers, a quarterly check-in with a primary care physician isn't optional — it's protective.
"I'd been on four medications for two years and no one had ever looked at all of them together. Dr. Chen caught an interaction my cardiologist didn't know about."
— Robert M., patient since 2022
Diabetes management isn't complicated — but it requires consistent, unhurried attention that most practices don't have time for.
We'll see you every three months to review your A1C, check your blood pressure, and look at your feet. Every six months we'll run a kidney panel and a cholesterol check. Every year, an eye referral and a dental reminder. None of this is aggressive or scary — it's a maintenance schedule, like an oil change for a car you plan to drive for a long time. The goal isn't just keeping your numbers in range. It's making sure diabetes never becomes the most important thing about your health.
Book a Chronic Care Visit04 — Referrals & Coordination
When You Need a Specialist
I refer patients to specialists I'd send my own family to — and I stay in the loop every step of the way.
When I refer you to a cardiologist or a gastroenterologist or an orthopedic surgeon, I write a referral letter that tells them what I know about you — not just the complaint, but your full context. And when they send a report back, I read it and call you to explain what it means in plain language. Too many patients leave a specialist's office with a diagnosis they don't fully understand and a follow-up plan they're not sure how to execute. That's where I come in — I translate, I coordinate, and I make sure nothing gets lost between offices.
"I saw three specialists over two months and felt completely lost. My primary care doctor here called me after every appointment to explain what I'd just been told. I can't overstate how much that helped."
— Sandra O., patient since 2020
Please bring it up here. Mental health is health — it belongs in the same chart as your cholesterol.
We screen for depression and anxiety at every annual visit. We prescribe SSRIs and manage mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression directly. For more complex situations, we have warm referral relationships with therapists and psychiatrists in the area — and we stay connected to your care while you're working with them. The goal is that you never have to explain your whole story to a stranger from scratch. Your mental health history lives alongside your physical history, the way it always should have.
Schedule a Mental Health Check-In05 — Book Your Visit
You've already done the hard part.
You read this far. You know what kind of care you need. Now let's get you in the door — we'll handle everything else from here.
What to expect
- We confirm within one business hour
- Insurance verified before your visit
- New patients get 45-minute slots
- Bring your medication list if you have one
"We don't put new patients in a queue. Your first visit with us is the most important one."
— Dr. Elena Vasquez, MD