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Gonzaba Observes National Healthy Weight Week
National Healthy Weight Week is observed in the third week of January to raise awareness on the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle. It was first inaugurated in 1994 and this year it falls during January 19th- January 25th. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC),...
2024 Boofest
San Antonio, TX - Gonzaba Medical Group presented Boofest, a free senior halloween dance with live music. Thank you to everyone who dressed up and spent the day celebrating BooFest with us, Gonzaba Medical Group sends a sincere thank you! We enjoyed seeing everyone’s amazing costumes, listening to...

Gonzaba Medical Group Leads the Nation In Positively Transforming Medical Care
More than 60 years ago, Dr. Bill Gonzaba made a decision that would positively and forever change the quality and access to medical care in San Antonio’s southside neighborhoods and would become nationally known as a “full-risk” health care model. One that holds provider organizations fully...

Gonzaba Medical Group: A Pioneer In Patient-Centered Medical Care
Claire considers the day she selected a primary care doctor at Gonzaba Medical Group as one of the most important days of her life. She had been suffering from recurring sinus infections for years and her former doctor would breeze through her appointment in less than five minutes, write her a...

What is a Family Practice?
Primary care physicians fall into one of two categories: family medicine doctors and internal medicine doctors. The most significant difference between the two is internal medicine doctors care for adults. A family practitioner is a pediatrician and internal doctor combined into one specialty....

Your Guide to Open Enrollment
Open enrollment season is a period of time when people may elect or change the benefit options in health insurance and Medicare. The dates are October 15 through December 7. Current Medicare users can choose to re-evaluate part of their Medicare coverage and compare it against other plans in the...

Healthy Aging Awareness Month: Tips on Aging
As you get older, it is essential to take care of yourself. Trying to stay healthy as you age can be a challenge. Through Gonzaba Medical Group, we created a program called Strong65. It was created for San Antonio seniors to engage in healthy lifestyles. By signing up for this program, it will...

The Importance of Physical Therapy for Seniors
As you grow old, you can experience more pain and are vulnerable to more injuries. Physical therapy can help relieve pain and restore physical functions such as flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination. Some of the physical therapy treatments that can be used are stretching, walking,...

National Physical Therapy Month
Physical therapy is used to treat people of all ages, from newborns to the very oldest, who have medical problems or other health-related conditions that limit their abilities to move and perform activities in their daily lives. October, is National Physical Therapy Month. We would like to...

What is Open Enrollment?
Open enrollment- also known as the Annual Coordinated Election Period, is typically between October 15 through December 7. This is typically the only acceptable timeframe in which you can either change your Medicare private drug plan and/or your Medicare health plan for the following year. This is...

Why Immunization Awareness is Important
Did you know in the last 50 years, vaccines have saved more than one billion lives in the United States alone? Imagine what the world would be like without vaccinations. When the majority of people are vaccinated, it can lead to eliminating preventable illness and eventually put an end to...

Dr. Bill Gonzaba Recognized for Bringing High Quality, Low Cost Care to South Texas
In Pat Lencioni’s best-selling book “The Advantage,” he identifies the healthy organization as one which will always find a way to succeed, inevitably become smarter, and tap into every bit of available intelligence and talent. Lencioni could have been describing Gonzaba Medical Group, a...
Rodriguez, Ruby, MSN, RN, APRN, FNP-C, CCRN
NP Ruby J. Rodriguez joined Gonzaba Medical Gorup in 2024. She decided to go into the healthcare industry because she noticed at a young age that there was a lack of patient education and wanted to be part of the solution. NP Rodriguez is passionate about patient education and compassionate...
Velarde, Franz MD
Dr. Franz E. Velarde was born and raised in Panama City, Panama. Growing up, both of his parents and extended family shared a love for medicine, his Dad was a doctor in Hospital Administration and his Mom a pediatrician. Inspired by all the doctors around him, Dr. Velarde decided to go into the...