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Sound Family Medicine
Mission Statement
We will provide excellent, comprehensive and
compassionate family medicine to our patients while treating our patients,
our employees, our families, and ourselves with respect and honesty.
Core Values
Integrity: We will strive to be open and honest.
We will demonstrate our integrity by:
- Always trying to honor our commitments.
- Being direct and open in our dealings with patients
and
co-workers.
Caring: We will treat our patients and our employees with compassionate care, trying to always do the best for each individual, for our patient community, and workplace as a whole.
We will demonstrate our caring by:
- Treating every patient at every visit with respect and compassion.
- Choosing our words and behaviors carefully to avoid
unnecessary concern and anxiety by our patients and
co-workers. - Our appearance, our behavior, and our hard work will show our patients and our coworkers that they are important and that we care for them.
Patient Focus: The primary factor in our practice of medicine and business will be to provide the best care to our patients.
We will demonstrate our patient focus by:
- Focusing primarily on the needs of each patient at every patient visit.
- Using the effect on our patients as the primary factor when making decisions on whether to change, add, or stop a part of our practice
- Dealing with patient complaints or concerns promptly and with the goal of resolution that is acceptable to the patient.
Intentional: We will make decisions and behave in a way that assures that the desired outcome is more likely.
We will demonstrate our intentional behavior by:
- Being proactive in looking for ways to improve our patient care and our business practices.
- Striving to continually improve our clinical, administrative, technical, and interpersonal skills.
- We will continually look for ways to be better in our patient care.
- Staying current and progressive in our use of technology to improve our patient care, record keeping, and business practices.
History of practice
Sound Family Medicine began as South Hill Family Medicine in 1984, when Dr. Rebecca Sullivan, MD left military service to start a family practice in partnership with Mike Young, MD in a small office on 112th Street. Two years later Hartland Medical Center was completed, and the practice moved to the new office. The concept from the beginning was to locate our office near where our patients lived and worked. Dr. Ed Pullen joined the group the next year after leaving military service.
Over the years our practice has grown to include nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as our board-certified family physicians. Doctors Don Sinden, Nancy Grubb, Marc Aversa, Kevin Taggart, Chris Young, Darin Blackburn, Susie McDonald, Tammy D'Souza, Jennifer Knowles, Sean Stout, Mohit Mahajan, Julie Komarow, Daren Mealer and Daniel Wells have joined the practice over the years. Curtis Allen PA-C, James Gee PA-C, Andrew Poplawski PA-C, David Nieman PA-C, Cydne Marckmann ARNP, Cyndi Desmond ARNP, Sonya Cottrell PA-C, Rhoda Brooks PA-C, Paul Gibson PA-C, Brandon Swisher PA-C, Jennifer Buchan PA-C, Sandra Loyer PA-C and Johny Lee PA-C have joined as physician assistants (PA-Cs) and registered nurse practitioners (ARNPs).
Our practice has continued to grow to help meet the need for primary medicine in the Eastern Pierce County area. In September 2002, our name changed to Sound Family Medicine when we expanded to the Bonney Lake location. We continue to grow to help meet the expanding needs of our community, and our third office opened November 2004 at Sunrise Medical Campus on Sunrise Boulevard (1/2 mile east of 176th & Meridian). In early 2008, we moved our Bonney Lake Same-Day Clinic into it's own suite, dedicated to the urgent-care needs of our patients. Dr’s Taggart and Young also moved into their own space, Hartland III, across from our Hartland Medical Center offices in May. At the end of the summer, our Sunrise location will be moving into a brand new facility currently undergoing construction at the Sunrise Medical Campus. We continue to locate physicians' offices near the homes of our patients. We believe this will result in more convenient care and better service to our patients.
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