Desert Center For Allergy And Chest Diseases

04/04/2023

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11/10/2022

Thank you to our amazing and dedicated Practice Manager Lisa, celebrating 40 years at Desert Center! We appreciate all that you do!

02/19/2021

Currently seeking a full time Back Office Medical Assistant in our thriving medical practice. See link below and contact through link or directly.

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01/24/2021

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The catastrophic COVID-19 loss of life has been insurmountable — we need physician assistants and advanced practice nurses.

03/18/2020

ALERT: OFFICE REMAINS OPEN / COVID-19 UPDATE!

Our top priority is making sure our patients, our staff, and community remain safe, especially during this extraordinary time.

As with any communicable disease, our clinic has strong infection control policies. Our staff has been screening and triaging over the phone for potential acute infectious disease prior to coming into the clinic. Our healthcare providers are exercising judgment with further recommendations.

Additionally, one medical staff member has been placed out front of our clinic entrance to screen patients and perform spot temperature checks before continuing with their schedule in-office appointments. We have also been temperature screening our office staff, clinic team, and all healthcare providers twice a day to ensure we may continue to safely and appropriately care for our patients.

We understand that high risk patients, including the elderly, smokers, chronic lung disease, heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetics, and cancer patients may feel uncomfortable coming into the clinic for routine follow up visits at this time. We can schedule a TELE-MEDICINE visit with your healthcare provider to further evaluate you over the phone and review any diagnostic testing results and proceed with treatment plans. We will bill your insurance based on the level of care.

Testing for Coronavirus (COVID-19) is not currently conducted at our clinic. If you have new onset of fever, cough and/or shortness of breath and/or meet other Center for Disease Control) CDC criteria for testing, you should call your primary care doctor or local urgent care to check and see if they are obtaining swabs to send out for testing. You may also call your local state health department or Arizona Poison Control for further triage and recommendations. If you have severe respiratory symptoms, you should call 911 and proceed to your local emergency department.

For more up to date information on COVID-19 and criteria for testing, please visit your local state health department website or CDC.gov website.

Thank you for your understanding!

10/09/2019

01/17/2017

This could save a lot of money – and lives.

01/16/2017

01/11/2017

Early introduction of peanut-containing foods into the diet during infancy may help prevent peanut allergy according to recent research.

12/05/2016

The majority of patients with a reported "Penicillin allergy" are not truly allergic to this antibiotic. This is important to rule out, as penicillins/beta-lactam antibiotics are first-line for the treatment of many infections. The avoidance of these may lead to the prescription of broad-spectrum antibiotics and subsequent bacterial resistance. Schedule an appointment for Penicillin allergy testing if you have previously been said to be penicillin allergic.

Hospitals can substantially reduce the use of beta-lactam antibiotics in patients at high risk for infection by screening to verify penicillin allergy, new research shows.

10/27/2016

The last time Auvi-Q was sold, it didn't lower costs. Will this time be different?

04/28/2016

Pollen counts are high and winds are gusting... why suffer? Schedule an appointment today!

12/02/2015

Dust Mites!

There’s no place like your own bed. However, there’s probably thousands of dust mites enjoying your warm, cosy bed alongside you. A bed can host up to 10 million dust mites. In case that wasn’t gross enough, they also p**p around 20 times a day. Although they are just a quarter of a millimeter in le…

02/25/2015

The finding, in The New England Journal of Medicine, addresses a condition that afflicts 2 percent of American children.