Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Medical Group - San Francisco, CA

Family medicine services

Family medicine doctors care for persons of all ages. They are skilled in delivering routine care, as well as offering vaccines and annual physicals. Doctors emphasize preventive medicine and aim to help identify health risks and work with you to make effective healthy lifestyle changes to help you maintain your health. 

See one of our family medicine doctors for things like:

• Annual wellness exams
• Colds and flu
• Ear aches
• High blood pressure

Dignity Health Medical Group - Saint Francis/St. Mary's is dedicated to providing comprehensive health care to San Francisco residents. Backed by the rich heritage of Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center, doctors provide convenient, personalized care.

General and vascular surgery

Our board certified general surgeons perform surgery and deliver care at both Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. Our surgeons specialize in minimally invasive techniques, using smaller incisions to minimize pain and expedite recovery time, and vascular surgery (heart, lungs, trachea, and esophagus) in addition to general surgery.

Our surgeons provide:

• Routine general surgery, including hernia repair, removal of gallbladders and appendix, and treatment of bowel obstructions
  
• Advanced laparoscopy for general surgery
  
• Endoscopic procedures including diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the esophagus and stomach (esophagogastroduodenoscopy or EGD), and on the colon (colonoscopy)
  
• Treatment of malignancies in the breast, thyroid, lung, stomach, intestine, colon/rectum, adrenal glands, and skin
  
• Vascular surgery

Thoracic care

The experienced teams at Dignity Health Medical Foundation strive to deliver quality care to every patient that walks through our doors. Thoracic surgery treats anything in your thorax or chest area—esophagus, lungs, mediastinum, trachea, and diaphragm. Cardiologists and pulmonologists work with the same organs and structures, so this surgical subspecialty works closely with those departments to provide you with optimal treatment options.  

Infectious disease services

Dignity Health Medical Foundation infectious disease specialists treat a wide range of infectious and immunologic diseases, keeping your needs and safety as our top priority. Our team of specialists treat a wide range of infectious and immunologic diseases such as those caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.

An infectious disease specialist may provide consultation for diseases that are complicated or atypical, including:

• Recurrent infections, severe infections and ones resistant to treatment
• Respiratory infections
• Bone and joint infections
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Hepatitis (along with our Gastroenterology physicians)
• Meningitis
• Valley fever
• Advice regarding prevention and vaccinations for those traveling to foreign countries

Infectious disease practitioners have specialized knowledge regarding the use of antibiotics and their potential adverse effects. They also have additional training in immunology (how the body fights infection), epidemiology (how infections spread) and infection control.