Primary Care

Think of primary care as your medical home, the place you turn to whenever you need healthcare. Victor Mendoza, MD, Umut Tufan, MD, and the rest of the experienced Fountain of Youth Medical Spa team have extensive experience as primary care providers. They care for the whole person by integrating conventional medicine with innovative therapies, anti-aging medicine, and mental health services. The team offers concierge medicine, welcomes walk-ins, can schedule same-day appointments for many treatments, and offers a choice of in-person and telehealth visits. Call the office in Birmingham, Alabama, or request a primary care appointment online today.

What is primary care?

Primary care ensures that each person’s medical needs are met by designating a healthcare provider as their first contact point.

This professional, your primary care provider (PCP), is the first person to call when you’re sick, injured, have questions about symptoms, need chronic disease management, or want a physical.

Your PCP at Fountain of Youth Medical Spa provides comprehensive healthcare, helps you find specialty services when needed, and continues to manage your overall care if you’re in the hospital or a community-based clinic.

What services are available through primary care?

At Fountain of Youth Medical Spa, you receive personalized healthcare for physical and mental health problems affecting adults.

The team’s primary care services include:

• Sick visits
• Annual physicals
• Preventive healthcare
• Immunizations
• Women’s healthcare
• Men’s healthcare
• Senior healthcare
• Anti-aging medicine
• Medical weight loss
• Mental healthcare
• Stress reduction
• Health assessments and screenings
• Chronic disease management
• Chronic pain management
• Specialized lab tests

Med spa services aren’t a standard part of primary care, but treatments like facial rejuvenation and body contouring complement the team’s integrative approach to optimal well-being.

How does primary care prevent health problems?

A primary care provider helps you stay healthy because you have a personal connection to a healthcare professional. Having a connection makes people more likely to seek preventive healthcare.

Primary care lowers your risk of developing chronic, incurable health conditions by providing two crucial services: risk assessments and health screenings.

Risk assessments

A risk assessment identifies your chances of developing a chronic disease. Your provider determines your risk by learning about your family’s medical history and your lifestyle habits. 

Factors that increase your chances of health problems include:

• Being overweight
• Eating an unhealthy diet
• Not exercising
• Smoking
• Drinking alcohol
• Having high blood pressure
• Having high blood sugar or cholesterol

Your provider helps you prevent disease by recommending ways to change your risk factors.

Health screenings

Health screenings are tests to detect a health condition before symptoms appear and while there’s still time to prevent it from becoming a full-blown disease. Your provider takes care of some screenings. Others, such as colonoscopies, mammograms, and bone density tests, are scheduled with other specialists.

Call Fountain of Youth Medical Spa or book online if you have questions about or need primary care. The practice offers in-person and telehealth appointments, welcomes walk-ins, and can schedule same-day appointments for many treatments.