Health GUIDE
Primary & preventive care
Primary care brings preventive visits and ongoing health needs together. Osita offers preventive and chronic disease management, helping you understand health risks and coordinate your care over time.
General patient education. Your clinician’s individual instructions take priority. An online guide cannot determine eligibility or replace an examination.
Before your appointment
- Bring your medication list, relevant records, insurance information, and questions. Screening and laboratory needs depend on your age, history, symptoms, and prior results.
- Bring identification, insurance details, medicines, allergies, relevant records and any school, sports or employer forms.
- Confirm whether your particular test needs fasting or other preparation. Do not fast or stop medication unless instructed. For surgery clearance, bring your surgeon’s requirements.
What to expect
Visits may include a medical-history review, examination, appropriate screenings, medication review, and follow-up planning. People managing conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes can discuss monitoring and ongoing care.
After your visit
- Before leaving, confirm the next steps and how any results, forms or referrals will be communicated.
- Contact the clinic if the expected follow-up has not arrived. Do not assume that no message means every result is normal.
Follow-up & what to expect
Your plan may include screenings, monitoring, treatment changes or referrals. Confirm who will communicate results and when to return; no news should not be assumed to mean normal results.
Your questions, answered
What is the difference between preventive and problem-focused care?
A preventive visit reviews health risks and screening. A new symptom or chronic-condition review may need additional time and may be billed separately. Tell scheduling staff what you need.
Can you help with diabetes or blood pressure?
The clinic lists chronic-disease management. Bring home readings, medications and recent tests. The visit can address monitoring and coordination, including specialist referral when appropriate.
Should I fast?
Only if the clinic instructs you for a particular test. Do not skip food or medicines by assumption, especially if you use diabetes medication.
Can I get every screening in one visit?
Screening depends on age, history and prior results. Some tests need another appointment or outside facility. Ask for a written list of what is due.
How do refills work?
Bring medication names and doses and discuss refill needs before running out. Some prescriptions require examination, monitoring or records; a refill is not guaranteed by an appointment request.
Planning your visit
What will it cost?
Confirm visit fees and what is included before scheduling. Tests, medication, supplies or additional visits may be separate. Ask about insurance eligibility for medical care; coverage is not guaranteed. A consultation is not advertised as free.
How can I contact the clinic?
Call 510-777-1000 Monday–Friday 9 AM–5 PM or Saturday 9 AM–2 PM Pacific. If we are helping another patient, leave your name and callback number. General inquiries can use the contact form when live; do not include sensitive medical details. Hablamos español.
When to get help
For severe symptoms or an emergency, call 911 rather than using the website form.
For severe or rapidly worsening symptoms, get medical care promptly. Call 911 for an emergency. The website form is not an urgent-care service.
Still have a question?
Our team can help you plan the next step. Hablamos español.
Information & references
Prepared October 28, 2026. Confirm availability and your individual instructions with the clinic.