Health Updates & News
How to Choose Your Doctor
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Our patients benefit greatly from being a part of River Bend, because they gain access to our team of experienced physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners. When patients join our practice, they can request a specific doctor to handle their care. We strongly encourage our patients to ‘shop around’ and choose the doctor at our […]
Concerns & Questions About Vaccines
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At River Bend Medical Associates, we believe in preventative medicine. Preventative medicine is the understanding that many serious diseases can be avoided entirely if their causes are addressed long in advance. Preventative medicine typically includes tools in order to attack problems from multiple angles: recommending lifestyle choices, encouraging annual physicals, scheduling screenings for certain diseases […]
Habits of successful weight maintenance
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Habits of Successful Weight Maintenance If you are considering taking up the laudable task of improving your weight and body tone—or you’re currently in the process of doing so—you may find that it can be a very difficult, challenging process. “Eating better” sounds much easier than it really is, as successfully improving your weight […]
Discussing LGBT-Related Issues With Your Doctor
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When you look at the front page of our website, you’ll see that we describe River Bend Medical Associates as a “progressive and culturally diverse family practice.” This is a mission statement that we take extremely seriously, especially when providing services to members of our local LGBT community. Our goal is for our LGBT patients […]
Meet Olivia: How Our Communications Liaison Improves Your Care
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You may not know her by name, but if you’ve visited River Bend Medical Associates before, then there’s a good chance you’ve spoken to Olivia Garcia, our Communications Liaison and Quality Management Analyst. Olivia spends much of her time being mom to her two year old son. But somehow, she still finds time between home […]
Your Child and their Healthcare Rights in California
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River Bend Medical Associates is a family medical practice, which means that our staff has the profound joy and privilege to watch the children we treat grow up into young men and women. But as these growing boys and girls are accompanied by their parents to appointments over the years, there inevitably comes a time […]