Waltham Primary Care at AFC Urgent Care

Primary care is the delivery of basic, non-specialized healthcare that helps patients maintain peak overall health. Unlike specialist care, primary care focuses on the major factors that impact the development of long-term healthcare conditions such as chronic diseases. 

A primary care provider helps patients avoid, or control, their current health status through procedures that help screen and detect new healthcare issues. For example, an annual checkup from a primary care provider helps to determine how patients can improve their overall health with various screenings like blood pressure tests, height/weight checks, vision, hearing, and lab tests. 

Many patients value the relationship with a trusted primary care provider because they help to identify specific healthcare goals and challenges on a patient-by-patient basis. The patient-provider relationship is crucial to ensure that patients make more positive healthcare choices. 

Primary care providers are also skilled in patient education, disease prevention, and counseling to help inform patients. 

Without Routine primary care visits, patients may experience a worsening in their overall health, miss important medical diagnoses, and experience a lower quality of life.