Primary Care
Primary care is the comprehensive healthcare service you receive from a primary care provider or primary care manager (or PCM) during a doctor’s visit. Some of these services include:
- Routine care for nonemergency and non-urgent care
- Routine screening, like an annual physical exam
- Well-Women Physicals
- Follow-up care if you have ongoing medical problems
- Preventive health care, like immunizations and allergy shots
- Walk-in contraceptive clinic
- Nurse Clinic for limited urgent care needs
- Family planning
- Patient education and counseling
Primary care also includes medically necessary diagnostic laboratory and X-ray procedures and tests. Primary care is used to treat adults and children, including infants and newborns.
TRICARE Information
Primary Care Team Mission
- “Improving Health and Building Readiness. Anytime, Anywhere, Always”
The mission of the Primary Care Team is to optimize the health, well-being, and medical readiness of the Active Duty Service Member. We accomplish this through our dedicated approach to Warfighter Medicine. Our clinic provides acute appointments, physical exams, medical readiness, and deployment screenings in support of the military’s wartime mission.
The Primary Care Team provides comprehensive medical care to all the beneficiaries of Fox Army Health Center. This clinic offers a range of services including adult and family medicine, pediatrics, and minor surgeries. Healthcare services are delivered by in-clinic or video-virtual appointments for added access to care and convenience. All TRICARE Prime patients enrolled to Fox Army Health Center and assigned to this clinic will have a Primary Care Manager (PCM). TRICARE Prime patients will coordinate specialty care through their PCM thereby ensuring continuity, timeliness, and appropriateness of referrals.
To make an appointment, call 256-955-8888 option 2, or 800-223-9531 option 2.