Patient Care
Section: Patient Care
Members of the Department of Family Medicine care for patients at various locations. These clinical activities occur at three main sites: its Family Medicine Residency, the Unity Health Care, Inc. network of community health centers, and the Georgetown University Student Health Center. It is by working with these sites that the Department provides family-centered health care to individuals and their families and teaches primary care, family medicine, and community health to medical students, residents, and other health professionals.
FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY
Fort Lincoln Family Medicine Center, outpatient training site for the Georgetown University—Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency, is located 30 minutes east of Georgetown in Prince George's County. The office, originally established in 1978, now has 8,000 square feet, 24 exam rooms, 2 treatment rooms, a patient education room, and facilities for training family practice residents and scores of medical students from all 4 years who rotate through there. The office serves an insured, working class population that is predominantly African-American. It has approximately 18,000 office visits yearly, and participate with more than a dozen health insurance carriers. The office functions according to a private office model, with patients and families seeing their family physician (resident or faculty member) by appointment. Fort Lincoln provides prenatal and obstetrical care, newborn and child care, office gynecology and adult and geriatric care. Providence Hospital, our community-based affiliate, contracts with our department to provide administrative, teaching and clinical services at the residency.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER
The Georgetown University Student Health Center is staffed by family physicians and nurse practitioners who provide clinical services to students. Among these services are: routine office visits, preventive health care, procedures (such as laceration repair, suture removal, and ear irrigations), laboratory studies, allergy injections, wart treatment, sports medicine, immunizations, referrals, and prescription refills. The Student Health Center is located on the Ground Floor of Darnall Hall on the University's main campus.
UNITY HEALTH CARE, INC.
Unity Health Care, Inc., formerly Health Care for the Homeless, comprises a series of safety net clinics distributed throughout medically underserved areas of the District of Columbia. These settings provide the opportunity to carry out the Department of Family Medicine's mission of teaching, research and clinical care in underserved communities. Unity Health Care, Inc. co-sponsors funding for eight of our faculty. Our affilitated Unity health care centers are: Brentwood Square, Congress Heights, East of the River, Hunt Place, Southwest, Upper Cardozo, and Walker-Jones.