We built our practice with you in mind!

Life is busy enough without feeling like your health care is just one more thing to do. At Olio Road Family Care, we want your personal health care to be a great experience—where you feel like a person and friend, not just a patient.

Olio Road Family Care is a practice in Fishers that is built around small town values like friendliness, personal attention and time. We understand the challenges of juggling jobs, children, school and activities—because we do it too. We are a part of this community. You’re likely to see us at the hardware store, the soccer field, or the local grocery. And we hope you do, because we’re in this together.

Colon cancer prevention

It has been said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We at Olio Road Family Care believe this to be true. As a part of your continuing care, you need to have a physical with your family physician once a year. The American Cancer Society and Academy of Family Physicians recommends that you get a colorectal screening every 10 years after age 50. One method of screening is colonoscopy. Colon cancer is highly treatable. If colon cancer is found and treated early, the 5-year survival rate is 90%. But because many people are not getting tested, only 39% of cases are diagnosed at this early stage when treatment is so successful. To learn more, please visit http://gutcheck.nci.nih.gov/.

Adolescent physicals

Adolescents face many awkward changes and challenges with school, sports, hormones, emotions, etc. Olio Road Family Care recommends annual physicals for adolescents to evaluate their physical and emotional growth and development, and we help screen them for the many social changes they are going through in their lives. Please call us today to set up a physical appointment for your child.

One in five high schoolers misuses prescription drugs
Twenty percent of high-school students have taken a prescription medication that was not prescribed by a physician, according to new CDC data. According to the findings, which came from the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, white students were most likely to misuse prescription drugs (23%), followed by Hispanics (17.2%) and blacks (11.8%). Improper drug use “increased steadily” from freshman year to senior year, according to MedPage Today. Boys and girls misused prescription drugs at similar rates (20%), while 72% of students reported using alcohol, the study found. The study authors say that educational and policy programs should be strengthened to warn teenagers about the risks of misusing prescription medication (Neale, MedPage Today, 6/3; Reinberg, Health Day, 6/3).

Health Care Innovations Exchange

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's comprehensive program is intended to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery. This program supports AHRQ's mission to improve the safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity of care.
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