Primary & Specialty Care - Mercy Medical Group - Citrus Heights, CA

Our primary care providers (PCPs) offer compassionate, complete health care for all ages, from newborns to seniors. We help you live a healthier, happier life through prevention, screenings, diagnosis and treatment. Our PCPs coordinate with Mercy Medical Group's specialists, ensuring you have a full team of experienced providers supporting your health and wellness, all managed by your primary care doctor.

Our primary care services include:

• Annual wellness checkups

• Flu shots and immunizations

• Follow-ups after an inpatient hospital visit or outpatient surgery

• Mental health counseling

• Nutritional counseling

• Physicals

• Preoperative evaluations

• Preventive care

• Sick visits

• Weight management

• Well-child care, including regular checkups, physical exams and immunizations

• Well-woman care, including gynecological exams and pregnancy tests

Primary care is a broad term for the health care you receive for routine checkups, preventive care and most everyday health concerns. Family medicine and internal medicine are both types of primary care, but they focus on different patient needs. 

The family medicine physicians at Dignity Health Medical Group in Citrus Heights care for patients of all ages — from infants to seniors. They diagnose and treat common illnesses, manage ongoing conditions, and provide routine checkups and preventive care.

Services include:

• Sick visits

• Annual physicals and routine checkups

• Preventive screenings and immunizations

• Women’s health and well-woman exams

• Well-child visits

• Pre-operative evaluations

• Weight management

• Follow-up after hospital stays or outpatient surgery

• Referrals to specialists when needed

Have questions? Call our direct family medicine line at (916) 735-4956.

Internal medicine doctors, also known as internists, specialize in adult care. They are expertly trained to prevent, diagnose, manage complex or chronic health conditions, and provide nonsurgical treatment for serious or unusual diseases.

Often serving as the main point of contact for managing a patient's overall health, internal medicine providers have the expertise to diagnose, treat and prevent a wide spectrum of diseases across all age groups.

Unlike standard adult medicine, geriatrics focuses on the unique needs of the elderly body, which changes as people age. The decision to see a geriatrician depends on your individual needs, not a specific age.

Our geriatric medicine specialists are here to support you as you age with comprehensive geriatric assessments, connection to community resources and guidance on recommended vaccinations. We diagnose and treat many age-related medical conditions, such as:

• Acute illnesses

• Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

• Arthritis, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

• Balance and gait concerns

• Diabetes

• Heart disease

• High blood pressure

• High cholesterol

• Osteoporosis

Seasonal allergies in Sacramento can seriously disrupt your life, causing watery eyes, sneezing, stuffy nose and wheezing. Allergies happen when your immune system overreacts to outside substances like pollens, grass, molds, food or animals.

Allergy testing can pinpoint your specific triggers, allowing you to avoid them. This is especially important if you suffer from asthma, as testing can reveal what allergens cause your attacks. Our Mercy Medical Group asthma and immunology specialists help you manage allergies, immune system conditions and asthma:

• Allergy testing

• Asthma testing and treatment

• Contact dermatitis evaluation and patch testing

• Desensitization 

• Immunotherapy

• Prevention and treatment for systemic allergic reactions 

• Relief from allergy-induced respiratory conditions

Our dermatologists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of short- and long-term skin conditions, including acne, age-related skin changes, eczema, melanomas and other types of skin cancer, moles and skin tumors. We also treat patients for conditions such as psoriasis, rashes and skin irritation and rosacea.

At our Citrus Heights location, our dermatologists provide personalized care by creating a treatment plan tailored to your specific needs. Our advanced treatment options include:

• Biopsy removal for skin cancer

• Chemotherapy

• Cryosurgery, a minimally invasive procedure that uses extreme cold to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue like lesions, cancer, and warts

• Mohs surgery for the removal of skin cancer

• Phototherapy to decrease inflammation

Our Mercy Medical Group endocrinologists specialize in diagnosing and treating endocrine conditions, including diabetes, thyroid conditions and pituitary diseases. If you need endocrine surgery, we offer minimally invasive endocrine procedures to reduce scarring and help you get back to your daily activities faster. 

Our endocrinologists treat a range of conditions, including: 

• Adrenal insufficiency

• Cushing’s syndrome

• Diabetes

• Glandular tumors

• Goiter

• Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism

• Obesity linked to diabetes

• Osteoporosis due to hyperparathyroidism

• Pituitary tumors

• Thyroid cancer

• Thyroid nodules

Our optometrists and ophthalmologists provide medical eye care and vision services, including eye exams, vision tests, accurate glasses and contact lens fittings. Optometrists focus on routine vision care, while ophthalmologists are medical doctors who can perform eye surgery and manage more complex medical eye conditions. Common eye problems managed by our specialists include:

• Vision restoration

• General optometry

• Pediatric exams

• Glaucoma management

• Vision testing

Common conditions we treat include binocular vision problems, cataracts, corneal and eye surface disease, crossed eyes, dry eye syndrome, diabetic eye disease, eyelid conditions, glaucoma, headaches and macular degeneration.

For eye problems related to other medical conditions, such as diabetes, autoimmune or thyroid disease, you may need to see other specialists to diagnose and treat the underlying problem.

At Mercy Medical Group, we know children change rapidly, and many factors affect development. We encourage parents to develop a comfortable, trusting relationship with their pediatrician so we can support your child's health journey.

At our Citrus Heights location, we offer comprehensive pediatric care for children from infancy through adolescence, including:

• Back-to-school physicals

• Diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses, such as colds, strep throat and skin or ear infections

• Hearing screenings

• Immunizations from hepatitis vaccines to flu shots

• Nutritional counseling

• Pediatric behavioral health resources

• Treatment of skin conditions like eczema or hives

A rheumatologist is a doctor who specializes in conditions that affect your joints, muscles, connective tissue, bones and immune system. Our Mercy Medical Group rheumatologists use medication, physical therapy and surgery to care for autoimmune, inflammatory or degenerative conditions, such as:

• Ankylosing spondylitis

• Fibromyalgia

• Gout

• Osteoarthritis

• Polymyalgia rheumatica

• Psoriatic arthritis

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Systemic lupus erythematosus 

Our rheumatologists work closely with Mercy Medical Group’s physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedic surgery, pain management and other departments to help patients regain mobility and enhance their quality of life.