Guilford Medical Associates - Richard W Tisovec

Our in-house services include primary care, laboratory, x-ray, bone density, disease management, and referral coordination. If you are here for fasting blood work (cholesterol/triglycerides or sugar levels), you should be fasting for about 12 hours. You may drink all the water, black coffee, or diet drinks you like.

One of our physicians is on call at all times for emergencies and will have ready access to your medical records. He may elect to advise and treat you by phone, may direct you to meet him at the emergency room, or may refer you to the emergency room physician or an appropriate consultant. Except in dire emergencies, you can help to assure more efficient and effective service by contacting the on-call physician at (336) 621-8911 before reporting to an emergency room.The physician on call is there for your emergency needs.

These Health Information Privacy Policies & Procedures implement our obligations to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information that we create, receive or maintain as a health care provider. We implement these Health Information Privacy Policies & Procedures as a matter of sound business practice, to protect the interests of our patients, and to fulfill our legal obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and its implementing regulations at 45 CFR parts 160 and 164 (65 Fed.

We are pleased you have chosen us as a provider of your medical needs. This serves as an introduction to some of our office policies and procedures in hopes of allowing your transition to be as smooth as possible. We request that you arrive 20-30 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time for this initial visit.