Clinical Services
Our services aspire to clinical excellence, using principles of family systems and population health, while considering the needs of our patients and our communities across all settings.
Primary Care Locations
Family medicine faculty and trainees provide care at two community health centers in the Bronx. Both sites are Federally Qualified Health Centers and Patient-Centered Medical Homes are located within health provider shortage areas.
We provide full-spectrum family medicine services, including care of children, care of adults, women’s health, and maternity care. Primary care services incorporate reproductive health services, HIV care, hepatitis C treatment, buprenorphine programs, behavioral health sciences, health education, social services, and other chronic care management. Patients who require inpatient hospitalization are admitted to our department’s hospital service, and pregnant women are cared for during labor and delivery by our faculty and residents at Wakefield Hospital.
Williamsbridge Family Practice
3011 Boston Road, Bronx, NY
Medical director: Dr. Mark Polisar
Family Health Center
1 Fordham Plaza, Bronx, NY
Associate director: Dr. Rayna Sobieski
Mark Polisar, M.D.
Medical Director
Williamsbridge Family Practice, Montefiore Medical Center
Rayna Sobieski, M.D.
Associate Medical Director
Family Health Center, Montefiore Medical Center
Maternity Care
Family medicine faculty are an integral part of the maternity care and nursery teams at Montefiore’s Wakefield Hospital, with services including management of labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn care, and triage services. Faculty members also oversee prenatal care within family medicine primary care sites.
Rebecca Williams, M.D.
Director
Maternity Care, Montefiore Medical Group
Women's Health
Reproductive health care, including insertion of IUDs and contraceptive implants, management of miscarriage, and pregnancy termination, is incorporated into our primary care practices as an integral part of family medicine services.
Contact the reproductive health team at reprohealthFM@montefiore.org
Hospital Medicine
The Family Medicine Hospitalist service at the Montefiore Moses division is structured in two distinct but complementary structures:
1- The teaching service is dedicated to the department's academic mission, providing comprehensive inpatient training to family medicine residents and medical students. This team supervises a specific number of patients under the supervision of a hospitalist and an attending physician.
2- The hospitalist service is a continuity care service. This service is led by a family medicine hospitalist who works closely with a dedicated physician assistant to manage these admissions
Together, these two services uphold the department's commitment to education, comprehensive care, and continuity of care
Purnima Garg, M.B.B.S.
Co-Director
Director, Inpatient Services
Hospital Services, Montefiore Medical Center
Palliative Care Program
Palliative care services include consultation for hospitalized patients across Montefiore’s three hospital campuses in the Bronx; outpatient palliative oncology; HIV palliative care; and a dedicated 15-bed inpatient unit, including hospice services, at Montefiore’s Moses campus. The palliative care clinical team also provides ongoing support for primary palliative care skills across the department.
Serife Eti, MD, FAAFP, FAAHPM
Serife Eti, MD, FAAFP, FAAHPM
Medical Director, Division of Palliative Medicine
Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Clinical Professor of Family and Social Medicine
Wound Healing Program
The Wound Healing Program provides services for patients with acute and chronic wounds, such as venous leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and pressure ulcers, utilizing the latest techniques in wound care. The program’s cross-settings approach incorporates an ambulatory care site that is fully disabled-accessible; inpatient consultation services across Montefiore’s three hospital campuses in the Bronx; and nursing home consultation services.
Healing Arts
Montefiore's Healing Arts Program works to enhance the quality of life of patients using the arts, creative arts therapies, relaxation techniques and other healing approaches. Based in the Department of Family & Social Medicine, Healing Arts provides consultation for departments across the medical center seeking to integrate these types of modalities into patient care.