…Peak Health offers outpatient services ranging from newborns and pediatrics to geriatrics, with a focus on women’s health. Particular services offered include colposcopy, hospice care, student health for local colleges, worker’s comp, Immigration and Naturalization Service physicals, clinical research, employment physicals and testing. Obstetrics was included up until the first of January 2004, after a difficult business decision mandated its elimination. Remaining hospital-based services provided by Peak Health include newborn care, surgical assisting, and inpatient and pediatric admissions…
Additional services provided in the office include:
Ultrasound
HIV Oroquicks
Travel vaccination
Urgent Care Generic Medication Dispensing
Limited supplement dispensing
In summary, when asked about their mission and values, the Peak Health physicians responded with:
Reducing medical errors
Embracing technology
Empowering patients and staff
Restoring the patient-physician relationship
Building a competitive family medicine practice that also invests in our staff
New Model of Care
Peak Health is a full-functioning completely electronic office. It features:
Two-way e-mail
A website that can be used by patients for scheduling and by doctors for sending notices, for example, about the availability of flu vaccine
Electronic health record system
Electronic ordering of prescriptions, labs and tests
Streaming patient education videos, courtesy of Wired MD
An on-line consult system (still in development)
Once the patient get used to it they are amazed at how well it works and have increased confidence that their records will not get lost. Physicians love it because it is more efficient and allows them to hire fewer people and rent less space…
