St. Luke’s Family Practice Helping Communities

By A.T. Still

St. Luke’s Family Practice is a non-profit, full scope family practice (all ages) serving both the completely uninsured and those able to pay in the Direct Primary Care (DPC) model. We don’t take insurance, so we are able to spend our time with patients and paperwork.

Our benefactors (paying patients) have access to us 24/7 and are able to reach us by phone, text or email. We offer same day access to accommodate patient’s schedules, 30-60 minute appointments so we have adequate time to address patient concerns, after hours and weekend care in the office to avoid ER visits when possible, care while hospitalized if needed, home visits and nursing home visits.

Dr.’s Heck and Kiesel are all broadly trained family practitioners, each with their special interests and talents, but all providing excellent, holistic care to our patients. For our “recipients” with no insurance or ability to pay, we offer the same full scope care, free of charge in the outpatient setting. Benefactor members help to support the mission of caring for those with no access to health care.

Our services include but are not limited to physicals, chronic disease management, office procedures (skin biopsies, wound care, women’s health biopsies, sutures, casting and EKG’s), pediatric care, well child physicals, sports physicals, women’s health physicals. We enjoy spending time educating about health and wellness and developing lasting relationships with our patients. During the pandemic we were able to stay open to patients in person and quickly had access to testing and vaccines when they became available. We were able to attend to our COVID patients in the office as well as the hospital, which was a comfort for our patients to have their own doctor caring for them.

The ease of access and ability of our group to spend quality time with patients are some of the most attractive aspects of St. Luke’s. As physicians, we relish the ability to get to know our patients on a more intimate level and play an active role in their continued health.

“To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease”.