Annual Wellness Visits
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Why Are Annual Wellness Visits Important?
Annual wellness visits allow you and your primary care provider to develop or update your personalized care plan to make sure you stay healthy. Talking with your primary care provider regularly allows for you and them to get to know each other and for them to become familiar with your health.
Your visit may include:
- Routine physical measurements like height, weight, and blood pressure.
- A review of your current medical history, prescriptions, and any injuries or concerns you have.
- A screening schedule for any appropriate preventative screenings you may have coming up.
What Preventative Services Do I Need?
Because your primary care provider will stay the same throughout your life, unless you decide to switch providers, they are your best point of contact for preventative screenings, vaccinations, and checkups throughout all of life’s stages.
Below are suggested screenings based on your age:
20s & 30s
Monthly
- Self-check skin cancer screening
- Testicular self-exam
- Breast self-exam*
Once per year
- Blood pressure screening
- Height, weight, body mass index (BMI) measurement
- Cardiovascular evaluation
- Comprehensive physical exam
- Depression screening
Every 2-5 years as recommended by your provider
- Blood sugar test
- Eye exam
- Pap exam with cervical cancer screening*
Every 5 years
As needed or recommended by your provider
- Fertility testing
- Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) tests
- Blood test
- Prenatal care*
- Vaccinations & preventative care
*recommended for women only
40s
Monthly
- Self-check skin cancer screening
- Testicular self-exam
- Breast self-exam*
Once per year
- Blood pressure screening
- Height, weight, body mass index (BMI) measurement
- Cardiovascular evaluation
- Comprehensive physical exam
- Depression screening
- Full body skin exam
Every 2-5 years as recommended by your provider
- Blood sugar test
- Eye exam
- Mammogram*
- Pap exam with cervical cancer screening*
- Gynecological and pelvic floor health screening*
Every 5 years
Every 10 years
As needed or recommended by your provider
- Fertility testing
- Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) tests
- Blood test
- Vaccinations & preventative care
- Menopause care*
*recommended for women only
50s
Monthly
- Self-check skin cancer screening
- Testicular self-exam
- Breast self-exam*
Once per year
- Blood pressure screening
- Height, weight, body mass index (BMI) measurement
- Cardiovascular evaluation
- Cholesterol check
- Comprehensive physical exam
- Depression screening
- Full body skin exam
Every 2-5 years as recommended by your provider
- Blood sugar test
- Eye exam
- Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening
- Mammogram*
- Pap exam with cervical cancer screening*
- Gynecological and pelvic floor health screening*
Every 10 years
- Cardiac calcium scoring
- Colon cancer screening
- Hearing test
As needed or recommended by your provider
- Bone density test
- Low-dose lung CT scan
- Blood test
- Vaccinations & preventative care
- Menopause care*
*recommended for women only
60s+
Monthly
- Self-check skin cancer screening
- Testicular self-exam
- Breast self-exam*
Once per year
- Blood pressure screening
- Height, weight, body mass index (BMI) measurement
- Cardiovascular evaluation
- Cholesterol check
- Comprehensive physical exam
- Dementia & Alzheimer’s screening
- Depression screening
- Full body skin exam
Every 2-5 years as recommended by your provider
- Blood sugar test
- Eye exam
- Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening
- Mammogram*
- Gynecological and pelvic floor health screening*
- Incontinence care
Every 10 years
- Cardiac calcium scoring
- Colon cancer screening
- Hearing test
As needed or recommended by your provider
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Bone density test
- Low-dose lung CT scan
- Blood test
- Menopause care*
- Vaccinations & preventative care
*recommended for women only
It is important to note that these are only recommendations. If you have questions about what screenings you need for your individual risk factors and health, contact your primary care physician.
We have Family Medicine clinics throughout Northeast Nebraska allowing for convenient access to the care you and your family need.
Find a Clinic Near You
Find a Primary Care Provider
You can schedule an appointment with a primary care provider by calling the number of a clinic near you:
- Battle Creek: (402) 675-9065
- Humphrey: (402) 923-0150
- Laurel: (402) 256-3042
- Neligh: (402) 887-1313
- Norfolk- North Medical Offices: (402) 844-8205
- Norfolk- Sunny Meadow: (402) 370-4100
- Pierce: (402) 329-4195
- Wakefield: (402) 287-2267
- Wayne: (402) 375-2500
402-371-4880