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 Our Office, Your Patients, Their Community |
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| Our Family Health Centers are designed to emulate the experiences of a family doctor in a group practice setting. Each center is attractive, fully equipped and has a full complement of nursing staff, clerical personnel, and a radiology technician. The services of a social worker and patient education coordinator also are available. During office hours, at least one or more medical preceptors are always available for immediate guidance. A behavioral scientist and Pharm.D. round out the precepting team. The health centers are "primary care providers" for Pittsburgh’s larger managed care companies — hereby affording on-site training for future participation within the changing health care environment. Two of the health centers also are teaching sites for third and fourth year medical students. Thus senior residents can learn by teaching.
 "Each of our Family Medicine faculty is an excellent family physician. These role models help me define what I want to be."
Karen Boyle-Moyer, M.D. |
Community partnerships have been a big part of the success at the New Kensington Family Health Center. Collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the Family Health Council, and Family Services of Western Pennsylvania have made it possible to address family planning, STD treatment and screening, as well as mental health issues on-site, rather than having to refer patients to outside facilities.The UPMC St. Margaret Family Health Centers in Lawrenceville, Bloomfield-Garfield, and New Kensington continue to identify and address issues that exist within the communities they serve. By treating every member of the family and addressing a wide range of issues, these centers offer patients convenience and quality - one center for the whole family's health care needs. Each of these neighborhoods represents different health care challenges. Our family health centers reflect UPMC St. Margaret’s commitment to meet these challenges and to become a positive force within these communities. |
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| Lawrenceville Center |
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 Presently the Family Health Center at Lawrenceville has approximately 17,000 annual patient visits. Its case mix is currently 27 percent pediatric and adolescent, 63 percent adult, and 10 percent geriatrics. Its facilities include an on-site lab, radiology suite, several special procedure rooms, 18 exam rooms, a large central precepting room, several consultation rooms as well as administrative offices, a reception area, a staff lounge and a community conference center. To facilitate medical student and resident training in history taking and patient interviewing, the Lawrenceville center is equipped with several observation mirrors and video cameras.
Specialty clinics in dermatology, orthopedics, minor surgery, sports medicine, gynecology, and obstetrics provide added training. Procedures done and taught regularly on site include: flexible sigmoidoscopy, colposcopy, cryosurgery, spirometry, slit lamp evaluation, tympanometry, endometrial biopsy, and OB nonstress testing.
The Lawrenceville site coordinates our home visit program. The Lawrenceville Family Health Center is also headquarters for the Family Medicine Fellowship Program and many Community Medicine outreach programs.
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| Bloomfield-Garfield Center |
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 The Bloomfield/Garfield Family Health Center was established in 1984 and already is caring for over 6,000 patients annually. Its present case mix is about 33 percent pediatrics and adolescents, 62 percent adult, and 5 percent geriatrics. This facility has eight exam rooms, an on-site lab, radiology suite, a reception area, staff lounge, and a precepting/conference area.
Bloomfield/Garfield Family Health Center is home base for our innovative School Health Program, which provides comprehensive physicals, health screening and health education to local elementary schools. Health services also are provided to several neighborhood residential programs for troubled adolescents and to residents of Laurentian Hall, an adjoining assisted-living apartment complex.
Lawrenceville and Bloomfield/Garfield are two contiguous but fairly diverse communities. Lawrenceville is a predominantly blue collar community of approximately 11,575 residents, many of whom are of Eastern European descent. The Lawrenceville center attracts many residents from adjoining communities including the university-dominated Oakland area. Bloomfield/Garfield is a largely underserved inner city community of approximately 16,400 residents. It is home for many single parent families, a large African-American population, and a growing Vietnamese community.
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| New Kensington Center |
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 UPMC St. Margaret's newest Family Health Center is a full-service neighborhood health center with an emphasis on high quality family health care, health education and health care partnerships. The facility has six exam rooms, along with on-site lab and radiology facilities.The baby pictures on the wall tell the story – the obstetrics portion of the New Kensington Family Health Center continues to grow. As these children grow, they will become participants in the center’s Reach Out and Read Program, an early childhood literacy project that focuses in relationships between children, their parents and physicians. Each time a child – aged 8 months to 5 years - visits the center for a well-child appointment, he or she recieves a new, age appropriate book to take home. According to Jonathan Han, MD, Medical Director, partnerships have been a big part of the success of the New Kensington Family Health Center. “Collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the Family Health Council, and Family Services of Western Pennsylvania have made it possible to address family planning, STD treatment ad screening, as well as mental health issues on-site, rather than having to refer patients to outside facilities,” he says. “Offering these services at the health center is a convenience for patients and alleviates the stigma that many fear is attached to seeking treatment for such personal issues.”
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