Patient Services
Medical Services
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People's Community Clinic offers an array of medical services for all ages. Please choose the service you are interested in below to find out more information. If you are a prospective patient, please call to find out if we are accepting new patients in that area.
- Adult Medicine Department
- Reproductive Health Services
- Prenatal Care Services
- Pediatrics Department
- Center for Adolescent Health
- Social Work Services
Adult Medicine Department
The Adult Medicine Department provides medical assessment, treatment and prevention services; annual exams; health education; laboratory tests; medications; and social work services. PCC provides a complete array of services for adult patients. At PCC each patient is assigned to a medical team that includes a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant, supported by a nurse, a medical assistant, as well as social workers and health educators. When it is needed, patients may also access social services such as the Chronic Disease Management Program, the Integrated Behavioral Health Program, the Patient Pharmaceutical Assistance Program, or the Nutrition and Health Psychology Department.
Many uninsured adults can’t afford to be sick, so they don’t seek medical help or go to the ER until they are so sick that they can’t work. Adult patients often come to PCC with complex medical issues and chronic diseases that are best dealt with by having a medical home. The patients under the care of our adult providers are among the most complex and challenging of all of the Clinic’s patients.
Director of Adult Medicine: Richard Peavey, M.D.
Funders: St. David’s Community Health Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the Temple-Inland Foundation.
Reproductive Health Services
Reproductive Health Services provides annual gynecological medical examinations, assessment and medical treatment for conditions affecting reproductive health, and family planning services. Our patients receive instruction in breast self-examinations, laboratory testing services and reproductive health and disease prevention education. We also provide colposcopy and cryosurgery services, if needed. We encourage annual Well Woman Exams as the best way to prevent or detect reproductive health concerns. The program works with our adult, adolescent and prenatal medical programs to address the whole lifecycle of a patient's reproductive health needs.
Director of Reproductive Health: Robert Sorin, M.D.
Prenatal Care
The Clinic offers a full array of prenatal services. PCC's Prenatal Program includes medical assessment, health education, fetal monitoring, laboratory tests, vitamins, medications, and social work services. As well as attending to prenatal health needs, the Clinic’s program provides prenatal patients with opportunities to learn more about caring for their newborn and breastfeeding. PCC also offers a prenatal clinic (the Tandem Program) dedicated to meeting the special needs of pregnant teens, including case management, health education and guidance. PCC encourages the new mothers to use PCC as their medical home beyond their pregnancy and to make our pediatric department the medical home for their infants.
High quality prenatal care provides the best foundation of preventive care for life-long health that medicine can provide. Proper prenatal care can save the community tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars per premature baby by reducing the need for intensive care for infants born with health problems that could be eliminated or mitigated through prenatal care.
Director of Reproductive Health: Robert Sorin, M.D.
Funders: St. David’s Foundation, the Topfer Family Foundation, the Austin Community Foundation, the Burdine Johnson Foundation and Impact Austin.
Pediatrics Department
The Pediatrics Department cares for infants, toddlers and young children. The department provides evaluation of newborns, immunizations, health and developmental screening, well-child examinations, medical assessment and treatment for chronic and acute conditions, and anticipatory guidance for parents. The Pediatrics Department provides a medical home that is accessible, comprehensive, family centered, compassionate, and culturally sensitive. Our pediatric providers can help the family/patient access and coordinate specialty care, educational services, in and out of home care, family support, and other community services that are important to the overall health of the child/youth and family.
Director of Pediatrics: Louis Appel, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP
Funders: St. David’s Foundation, the Topfer Family Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Impact Austin.
Center for Adolescent Health
The Center for Adolescent Health provides affordable, specialized, interdisciplinary health care for teens and young adults ages 11-23 in Central Texas. Through comprehensive medical, behavioral, and preventive services and partnerships with other community organizations, we emphasize helping teens and their families navigate the transition to adulthood in a positive way. The Center is comprised of primary medical care services, specialized programs and community partnerships. For more information, see the Center for Adolescent Health page.
Director of Adolescent Health: Celia Neavel, M.D.
Social Work Services
Our Social Service Department offers assessment and referral, case management, and assistance to patients in developing and implementing plans to access other services within the Clinic and in the Austin community. The department is staffed by social workers with a variety of specializations, patient assistance personnel and consulting physicians. Many of the services offered through our social services department can be found in our Special Programs section. Please see below for a list of services offered.
- Pharmaceutical Assistance. Patients who can not afford medication costs can be assisted through the Patient Pharmaceutical Assistance Program. If you are a patient, speak with your provider about this program.
- Chronic Disease Management Program
- Integrated Behavioral Health Program
- Tandem Adolescent Prenatal and Parenting Program
Director of Social Services: Robin Rosell, LCSW, LMFT