Family Medicine

 

Vision

  • To be the Family healthcare provider of choice for every employee and their dependent.

Mission:

  • To serve the employees and their dependents with comprehensive Family
  • healthcare and achieve the best patient experience in an integrated education and research setting.

Location:

  • First Floor- North entrance.

Hours of Operation:

  • Family Medicine Clinic is open Sunday to Thursday- Regular working hours.

Eligible Patients:

  • All employees and their eligible dependents have access to our services.

Types and Range of Services:

  • Acute and chronic diseases management in an outpatient setting during working hours.
  • Occupational healthcare
  • Age adjusted preventive services
  • Patient counseling and disease risk mitigation through life-style modifications.
  • Patient’s diagnostic work-up is initiated
  • Additional referral or consultations can be obtained to achieve excellence in care-delivery.
  • Antenatal care of routine pregnancy
  • Childhood immunizations
  • Care of geriatric patients.
  • Minor office procedures will be performed as needed by our staff
  • Screening of cancers and
  • Support for life-style changes such as smoking cessation, work-life balance, weight loss programs will be initiated as needed for our patients.

 Reminder to our Patients:

  • PLEASE come on time! Otherwise you may need to rebook your appointment for another day.
  • Bring your medications or at least pictures of them on your phone.
  • Write your medical history, any questions or old medical reports you may have.
  • Daily morning sessions are reserved for walk-in and urgent complaints.
  • Daily virtual AND in person appointments are available.
  • Our consultants may order tests and referrals that are only clinically necessary.
  • If you get admitted to Hospital- please inform us.
  • No-show is not acceptable, cancel your appointment if you cannot make it.

 

International and Local Pre-Employment Physicals:

1- Any missing elements from your medical report will need to be complete

2- Blood tests

  • Although some blood tests were already done in your country of origin, international employees will repeat certain tests as per hospital and government regulations.

3- PPD skin test (or Mantoux test)

  • All employees will get a PPD skin test (unless documentation is provided of a positive PPD or QuantiFERON test)
  • Depending on medical reports, some employees will do one PPD, and others may need two.

4- Vaccination update

  • All employees will receive vaccinations as needed (some mandatory, and others are optional)

5- Chest X-Ray
         If there is no documentation provided of CXR, or if CXR was done but is more than 6 months old, you must repeat it (required for Iqama)

6- EKG

  • All employees >40 years’ age must get an EKG if one is not available.

 7- Staff:

  • Our nursing staff are registered nurses and come from Saudi Arabia and various other countries across the world.
  • ALL our physicians are Board Certified and credentialed by the Hospital Credentials Committee.
  • Our staff maintain the required continued medical education hours and participate as speakers during various local and international conferences.
  • When you visit our Department, be assured that you are in good hands