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Primary Care

Primary care that knows the full picture

Preventive care, new concerns, and ongoing needs are easier to manage with one physician who knows your history, goals, and life in context.

For adults, families, and children ages 3 and older. Care available in English and Spanish.

Primary & preventive care

Care for everyday health and the years ahead

From preventive screenings to new symptoms and ongoing conditions, membership-based primary care brings your everyday health needs under one roof.

Preventive & routine care

Annual health reviews, screening recommendations, vaccinations, and personalized risk assessment.

  • Annual physicals and routine health reviews
  • Pediatric well visits and sports physicals
  • Screening guidance for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and cancer
  • Vaccinations and preventive lab testing
  • STI screening, PrEP, and sexual health

New symptoms & sick visits

Evaluation of common illnesses, injuries, symptoms, and changes in your health.

  • Respiratory, ear, or sinus symptoms
  • Urinary, abdominal, or skin concerns
  • Minor injuries and new pain or swelling
  • Headaches, dizziness, or fatigue that should not wait

Chronic condition care

Ongoing management of high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, thyroid disease, asthma, depression, anxiety, and other stable conditions.

  • High blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes
  • Thyroid disease, asthma, and migraines
  • Depression, anxiety, and sleep concerns
  • Medication management and follow-up care

Mental health in primary care

Evaluation and treatment of anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, sleep problems, and attention concerns when appropriate.

  • Anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms
  • Sleep concerns and burnout
  • Attention or focus concerns when appropriate
  • Support, follow-up, and medication management

Office procedures & testing

Many routine concerns can be evaluated and treated directly in the clinic.

  • Minor skin biopsies and cryotherapy
  • Joint and soft-tissue injections
  • EKGs and point-of-care testing
  • Blood draws and specimen collection

Coordination & health planning

Referrals and coordination with specialists, pharmacists, and other clinicians — plus care that follows you across seasons of life.

  • Referrals to specialists when needed
  • Medication review and prescription management
  • Lab, imaging, and follow-up testing
  • Lifestyle counseling and health planning
  • Preventive care tailored to your age and stage
  • A care plan that evolves with you

Not an emergency department. Call 911 or seek emergency care for severe chest pain, signs of stroke, serious breathing difficulty, major trauma, uncontrolled bleeding, or another potentially life-threatening emergency.

In-office care

Common procedures and in-office care

Many routine concerns can be evaluated and treated directly in the clinic. Availability depends on the concern, medical appropriateness, and the equipment required.

Most common procedures and in-office care are included in your membership, with no per-visit copays.

Skin & lesions

  • Minor skin biopsies
  • Cryotherapy for selected skin lesions and warts
  • Incision and drainage of selected abscesses

Wounds & injury repair

  • Simple laceration repair
  • Suture or staple removal
  • Routine wound evaluation and dressing care

Injections & joints

  • Joint and soft-tissue injections when appropriate
  • Medication administration and selected injections
  • Selected contraceptive procedures

Diagnostics & lab

  • Electrocardiograms (EKG)
  • Selected point-of-care testing
  • Blood draws and laboratory specimen collection
  • Earwax removal

Some procedures, medications, laboratory tests, or supplies may involve an additional charge. Members can ask about expected costs in advance.

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How this approach is different

Care that connects the pieces

A concern that begins as fatigue, weight change, poor sleep, pain, or stress may involve several parts of your health. Ongoing primary care allows us to look for connections and build a plan rather than addressing each concern in isolation.

Connections across symptoms and conditions

A plan that evolves with your life

Specialist coordination without losing continuity

Lifestyle medicine

Everyday habits are part of medical care

Sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, relationships, and substance use can affect health and treatment. These factors are considered alongside medications, testing, and other medical care — not as substitutes for them.

Six pillars of lifestyle medicine

Evidence-based lifestyle change can prevent, treat, and often reverse chronic disease

Used together, these pillars can help achieve chronic disease remission in some people.

Nutrition

Whole, minimally processed foods

Movement

Regular physical activity

Sleep

Restorative, consistent sleep

Stress

Healthy stress management

Relationships

Meaningful social connection

Substances

Avoid risky substance use

Common questions

Dr. Venis provides primary care for patients ages 3 and older, including adults and families.

Yes. Members can message the practice through the SigmaMD patient app or contact the office about new symptoms, common illnesses, minor injuries, or other concerns that should not wait for a routine visit. Messages are checked during business hours; for urgent after-hours concerns, current members may use the after-hours line.

Many new symptoms, common illnesses, and minor injuries can be evaluated in the clinic or through a virtual visit. The practice will help determine the right setting and will direct you to urgent or emergency care when needed.

Yes. Ongoing management of high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, thyroid disease, asthma, migraine, GERD, depression, anxiety, and other stable conditions is part of membership-based primary care.

Yes. The practice can refer you to specialists and help coordinate care while maintaining continuity in primary care. Specialist visits are billed separately by the specialist.

This is where most of your healthcare can start.

Not fragmented. Not rushed.

Thoughtful, connected, and personal.

Primary care that knows the full picture.

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