Eligible U.S. residents can apply for and make changes to their Medicare plans from October 15 – December 7. Medicare is a health insurance plan for people ages 65 and up, or those with certain conditions or disabilities. It is important to know your options and pick a plan that lets you keep your ARC care team.
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You can receive your flu shot and COVID-19 vaccine at the same time by booking a flu or COVID-19 vaccination appointment or requesting them at your next primary care visit.
Learn more about flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines at ARC.
Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) doctors, advanced practice clinicians (APCs), staff, and leadership are committed to providing our community with high quality convenient care. One of the ways we demonstrate this priority is through our online transparency.
You can review our doctor and APC ratings and comments on our web site with the confidence that they are all based on verified visits. We post all patient feedback relevant to the entire visit and only refrain from posting comments that are libelous, profane, or those that risk the privacy of our patients.
The below guide provides details about how we collect and share our patient feedback.
ARC partnered with Press Ganey to collect patient feedback about their doctor’s or APC’s visit. We gather feedback from text surveys that are sent after the visit. Press Ganey is an independent third party customer feedback company that provides the technology to collect the feedback and display ratings and comments on our web site. All ratings are submitted by actual patients and verified by ARC.
Patients for whom we have a mobile phone number receive a text survey within two hours of checking in for their visit. Patients are asked to complete the survey and provide ratings and comments regarding their experience at different touch points of their visit. We use this feedback to recognize doctors and staff, identify issues we can correct, and enhance our care.
ARC posts all positive and negative patient feedback that is relevant to the entire visit. We refrain from posting comments that are libelous, profane, or those that risk the privacy of our patients.
ARC asks questions that touch on the overall patient experience related to their visit. Anyone seeking detailed information about each question can view the ratings for each specific question on the Reviews tab on the doctor or APC bio page on the website. We calculate our doctor and APC star ratings based on the responses to question number six below. We calculate our location star ratings based on the responses to all the below questions.
Since more recent data provides a more accurate picture, we require a minimum of 30 patient surveys per doctor in the last 12 months before we post a physician’s rating.
ARC physicians and staff review all comments and act to rectify issues. Since the purpose of the feedback is to allow us to improve the overall patient experience, we display the last 90 days of comments which are the most relevant for the practice.
No. Only patients having an outpatient visit by an ARC physician or APC receive a survey. The results are based entirely from patients who have actually been treated by the physician or APC in our clinics.
Comments are reviewed and approved prior to being published to the website. If a comment contains any personally identifiable information, that information will be removed from the comment.
Karina Rea was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, and at age 12, moved to Seguin in Central Texas. In her free time, she loves spending time with her daughter and husband. Photography has always been one of her passions, capturing the essence of memories on film. Mrs. Rea also enjoys spending time outdoors, exercising with her camp gladiator family, and attending church services. One of her favorite area venues is the McKenna Children’s Museum in New Braunfels, where she takes her daughter, and says, “the opportunity to watch her exploring and learning new concepts while having fun is one of my most pleasurable experiences.”
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Growing up, I had several health conditions that made me realize I wanted to have the knowledge to care for myself and my family. My parents worked hard to provide the best possible care for my brother and me, which motivated me to pursue a career in health care to one day provide the same exceptional care for my own family and others. I believe in treating others as I myself would want to be treated. This allows me to provide care with empathy and compassion. Providing positive patient experiences is one of my highest priorities in delivering optimal patient care.
With ARC Same-Day care, appointments are available 365 days a year for minor emergencies, including sprains, colds and flu, minor burns, seasonal allergies, and more. We're here for you on days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
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ARC offers telemedicine visits for primary and specialty care. ARC doctors and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) can quickly evaluate you for a new health issue or follow up with you via a phone call or video visit from the comfort of your home.
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Rating based on “Did the doctor or advanced practice clinician (APC) provide the care you expected?”
It was a long wait. About 30 min.
I especially liked the care and concern that the PA showed me today. I was very satisfied with the visit. If I have to get same-day service again, I will surely ask for her. She was knowledgeable and professional, and did not rush through the visit
Karina was so patience and answered all my questions. She was friendly, very knowledgeable and patience. I encouraged her to consider being a Dr because she was very knowledgeable and patience. her nurse, was so kind, nice, patient and extremely knowledgeable. I was so impressed w both of them.
Everyone was really helpful and the visit was pretty fast.
My provider was very thorough.
The wait in the office seemed longer than usual but I was told it might be
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