About the East Pierce Family Medicine Clinic
The East Pierce Family Medicine Clinic is a renovated building with 21 exam rooms. We have rooms specifically for obstetrical ultrasound, procedures, osteopathic manipulation, women’s health, and bariatric patients.
Our patients come from all over Pierce County. The county encompasses urban, suburban, and rural locations. Our patients come from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and ethnicities. Significant proportions of our patients have private or military insurance, while others have Medicare and Medicaid, and others have coverage through MultiCare Financial Aid.
The clinic is located across the street from Good Samaritan Hospital. We have laboratory services, pharmacy, and diagnostic imaging within a few blocks of EPFM.
The clinic is staffed by board-certified family physicians and 18 residents.
Residents are trained in the following procedures in clinic:
- Circumcision
- Colposcopy
- Cryosurgery
- Endometrial biopsy
- First-trimester ultrasound
- Incision and drainage
- IUD placement and removal
- Joint aspiration and injection
- Nexplanon placement and removal
- Occipital nerve block
- Osteopathic manipulation
- Skin lesion removal and/or biopsy
- Toenail removal