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Family Medicine at The Allen Hospital

The physicians and staff of the Department of Family and Community Medicine offer comprehensive primary medical care, pregnancy and family planning services, health promotion, and disease prevention to adults and children in northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Family Medicine hospital care for adults, as well as labor and delivery care, are provided at NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital. Family medical care is also provided at the Herman "Denny" Farrell, Jr., Community Health Center on West 158th Street.

Family and Community Medicine is devoted to increasing access to primary care in our community, and has adopted a broader approach to care than is ordinarily found in primary care practices. Through our approach, called Community-Oriented Primary Care, we collaborate with organizations and individuals from the community to identify health-related challenges and to develop appropriate programs to address those issues. Our clinical, outreach, and educational programs include:

• Breastfeeding education
• Literacy program for children under age 5
• Smoking prevention programs in grade schools
• HIV prevention education program for minority girls
• High school health education to address health issues important to adolescents
• Home visitation

About Our Physicians

All physicians at The Allen Hospital are also on the staff of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, one of the country's major medical centers. In addition, each of our physicians is a member of the highly regarded ColumbiaDoctors faculty practice. This means that patients experience a level of care found in a leading academic medical center, while being cared for in the intimate setting of a community hospital.

Joanne Dempster, MD, is The Allen Hospital's Chief of Service for Family and Community Medicine.