Services | Preventative Care

As Family Medicine providers, we believe in working towards a healthy lifestyle to prevent illness and disease before it occurs.  Maintaining your routine physicals with your provider is a way for us to partner with you to ensure all recommended screening tests and opportunities for lifestyle changes are addressed.  See recommended frequency of visits and recommended screening tests below.

Recommended Frequency of Well Child Checks/Physicals and Screening Tests

Babies	Birth to 2 years	Well Child Check	2 wks, 2, 4, 6, 9 12 and 18 months
Children	2 – 6 yrs	Well child Check	Every year
Children	6 – 18 yrs	Well child Check	Every 2 years
Adults	18 – 40 yrs	Physicals	Every 2 years
Adults	40-65 yrs	Physicals	Every Year
Women	21-65yrs	Cervical Cancer screening/Pap smear	Every 1-3 years
Women	40-65 yrs	Mammograms	Every 1-2 yrs
Men	50-65yrs	Prostate Cancer screen discussion	Every year
All Adults	21 and older	Blood pressure	Every 2 years
All Adults	35 and older	Cholesterol	Every 5 years
All adults	50-65 yrs	Colon Cancer screening	Every 1 – 10 yrs
All Adults	50 and older	Osteoporosis screen	Varies based on risk
All adults	21 and older	Tetanus	Every 10 yrs
All adults	60 and older	Shingles vaccine	Once
All adults	65 and older	Pneumonia vaccine	Once
Smokers	55 and older	Aneurysm screening	Once
Overweight	All ages	Diabetes screening	Every 1-2 yrs

Updated: 1/2011