Welcome to our office! It is a privilege to have you as a patient. Dr. Denis Foster and the staff are here for you. It is our desire to ensure that your experience is one that leaves you with full confidence. Where you feel that you are served well and are satisfied with the care you receive. Our goal is to develop a trusting relationship with you based on mutual respect. We welcome your comments, criticisms, referrals, and compliments. It is the vision of Family Care Network and Foster Family Medicine to provide the best family medical care in the country. As a Family Practice physician we provide:
You have chosen as your family physician either Dr. Daniel E. Austin, Dr. Chao-ying Wu, Dr. Jason T. Short, Dr. April Wakefield Pagels, Dr. Sue Dabney, Dr. Mary Swanson, Dr. Anneliese Floyd, Dr. Kirk Gulden, Dr. John Raduege, or Dr. Carlos Montiel. We are specialists in family medicine, board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. Our practice is currently accepting new patients.
To learn more about the healthcare providers in our office please visit our Staff page. To learn more about our office policies and procedures please visit our Information page.
All our family physicians are board certified. Today, that means three years of training after graduation from medical school, followed by a nationally standardized examination. In order to maintain specialty certification, it is necessary to take and pass a recertification exam every six years, and pass a practice audit.
Geraldine Kildow and Sharon Kerlin are Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners that help to provide patient care in our office. An Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) is a registered nurse with further education who is also professionally certified and licensed in the state of Washington to practice as a member of our health care team. We believe that both our doctors and our nurse practitioners have unique strengths that they bring to our health care team, and we pledge to work closely together to try and make our care more available and complete.
Family Care Network is an independent practice that is owned by our physicians. This is because we want our family physicians to be independant and free to collaborate on behalf of our patients with other health care providers based only on the quality of their service and care.
Our teams of health care professionals and support personnel are located in family medical offices throughout Bellingham, and Whatcom County Washington.
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Our family physicians provide health care for children, and use their relationship and knowledge of the family to provide care that is integrated with the family's unique needs.
When parents choose their family doctor for their child's medical care, they are able to take advantage of the trusted relationship that already exists between them and and their personal physician. Since the family doctor usually already knows the other members of her family, it is easy to include them as appropriate in birth and childcare planning. During pregnancy, as issues of pediatric care are considered, it is routine to anticipate, discuss and plan for care of the baby as well. Questions about breast feeding, safety, car seats, immunizations and sibling rivalry can all be discussed before the baby is born, without waiting to meet a new doctor after delivery.
After delivery, the family doctor often examines the newborn in the presence of the parents, and discusses all of the findings without any delay. Since the mother already knows her baby’s doctor, questions are easy to ask and answer right away, and a good foundation exists for ongoing care throughout the developing phases of childhood.
Our family physicians are residency trained, board certified specialist physicians who take a special interest in providing children with sensitive, collaborative and family centered care , for which they have been trained in both the hospital and outpatient setting. As always, when the care of another type of specialist may be needed, the family physician will be an advocate to be sure that proper consultation is obtained in a timely manner.
Welcome to our office! It is a privilege to have you as a patient.
The Bellingham Bay Family Medicine professional team of physicians and staff are here for you. It is our desire to ensure that your experience is one that leaves you with full confidence. Where you feel that you are served well and are satisfied with the care you receive. Our goal is to develop a trusting relationship with you based on mutual respect. We welcome your comments, criticisms, referrals, and compliments. It is the vision of Family Care Network and Bellingham Bay Family Medicine to provide the best family medical care in the country. Our family physicians provide:
A family physician is a doctor who has received at least three years of specialty training (beyond medical school) in the broad disciplines of primary care. These include in-depth coverage of adult and pediatric medicine, preventive care and obstetrics. read more »