Patient-centered approach focus at Family Health Center

Rick Monroe

Special to the Village News

A smile peeks behind the blue mask of Dr. Wendy Vu, a pediatrician at Fallbrook Family Health Center, as she walks into the waiting room with colorful charts and posters displayed on each wall. Typically you cannot see the smile because the mask covers it.

"Hola, ¿cómo estás?" she asks, as she greets her young patient and his mother at FFHC; Vu joined FFHC a little over a year and a half ago.

Vu always welcomes her patients with a bright smile and is learning to communicate in Spanish – a language that is primarily used within the community FFHC serves....