The Primary Care Clinic

The Primary Care Clinic at Bellevue Hospital provides 62,000 continuity visits per year to patients with a variety of chronic diseases. It is involved in several major initiatives to improve the quality of patient care, such as open access scheduling, primary care redesign to deliver more patient-centered care, smoking cessation programs, and chronic disease management in patients with diabetes and depression.

The clinic also conducts special programs in anticoagulation care, preoperative consultation, obesity management, and renal stone disease. Each year Division of General Internal Medicine faculty working in the clinic's hospitalist program provide care to about 6,600 acutely ill patients with a great diversity of medical conditions.

Clinic faculty also produced The Bellevue Guide, a 400-page evidence- based guide to primary care internal medicine written and edited by members of the division and other specialists in the Department of Medicine.

Geriatrics Clinic

Provides 8,000 visits per year to elderly patients with chronic medical conditions. To ensure that its patients receive comprehensive, multidisciplinary care, the clinic's staff includes four psychiatric care providers, three social workers, and a dietitian.

The 14-bed inpatient geriatric unit is staffed by a dedicated attending geriatrician and a clinical fellow who provide consultation and follow-up to elderly patients with dementia, functional impairment, and degenerative disorders.