Dr. Garcia currently has long wait times for new patients. Please see below for physicians and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) he recommends to new patients wanting to transfer or establish care at ARC.
If Dr. Garcia is your primary care physician, please book your appointment via your ARC MyChart account or call 512-ARC-INFO (512-272-4636).
Margaret (Maggie) L. Hemmen, APRN, MSN, FNP-C
Megan H. Hoang, APRN, FNP-C
Jacqueline R. Karathra, MD
Kristin M. Yeager, APRN, CRNI, FNP-BC
Jesse W. Dunkle, MD, MPH
Dr. Garcia is married with two children. He enjoys reading, soccer, martial arts, and salsa dancing.
I believe the key to medicine is listening. I try hard to make sure that I hear the patient’s story and understand their fears. Often, I have found the act of listening to be as therapeutic as the medicines themselves.
You can schedule an office visit to discuss mental health concerns, medication refills, and follow-up care. Your primary care team may utilize screening tools during office visits to identify potential mental health concerns, enabling them to provide appropriate resources and/or treatment options.
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Annual Physical Exam
Annual Physical Exam
An annual wellness exam helps you touch base with your ARC doctor, address health issues, and talk about preventative measures for you.
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Breast Exams
Breast Exams
Breast exams are check-ups, mammograms, and other types of screenings that look for for changes or problems in the breast tissue.
Chronic Care Management
Chronic Care Management
Chronic healthcare management includes care for patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and other chronic health conditions.
Diabetic Retinopathy Screenings
Diabetic Retinopathy Screenings
Austin Regional Clinic offers annual diabetic retinopathy screenings to our patients with diabetes. Screening is easy, takes less than five minutes to complete, and does not require any pupil dilatation or eye protection.
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Flu Shots
Flu Shots
A flu vaccine can help prevent flu-related visits to the doctor each year. CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get vaccinated every flu season.
Immunizations help provide immunity to children and adults before they are exposed to potentially harmful diseases like hepatitis B, measles, mumps, polio, and more.
Medicare Wellness
Medicare Wellness
A Medicare Wellness visit a benefit provided to patients with a Medicare insurance plan. It is conducted by a dedicated Medical Wellness Provider at ARC, where you can expect a review of your health that includes vaccinations, cancer screenings, and more.
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Mental Health Medication Management
Mental Health Medication Management
ARC offers mental health medication management for patients with behavioral or cognitive health conditions.
Minor Procedures
Minor Procedures
ARC Family Medicine doctors can perform in-clinic minor procedures.
Musculoskeletal Care
Musculoskeletal Care
ARC Family Medicine doctors can provide care, treatment, or referrals to address musculoskeletal issues that cause you pain and discomfort.
Pap Smear
Pap Smear
Annual pap tests are used to screen for cervical cancer.
Prostate Screenings
Prostate Screenings
Prostate screenings help detect early signs of prostate cancer.
Same-Day Illness & Injury Visits
Same-Day Illness & Injury Visits
Our providers are available 365 days a year for minor emergencies, including sprains, colds and flu, minor burns, seasonal allergies, and more. We're here for you on days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
ARC offers telemedicine visits for primary and specialty care. Doctors can quickly evaluate you for a new health issue or follow up with you via a phone call or video visit from the comfort of your home.
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Well-Check Exam
Well-Check Exam
A well-check exam focuses on maintaining your child’s health and is a time to discuss preventive care. Our doctors and APCs cover growth, development, immunization updates, health, safety, nutrition, physical fitness, puberty, acne, learning, behavioral questions, and family and social concerns.
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Locations & Hours
ARC Far West 6835 Austin Center Boulevard Austin, TX 78731 Get Directions
Rating based on "Did the healthcare provider or doctor provide the care you expected?"
4.9out of 5
ARC Patient Feedback
Guide to ARC Patient Feedback and Ratings
Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) doctors, staff, and leadership are committed to providing our community with high quality convenient care. One of the ways we demonstrate this priority is through our online transparency.
You can review our provider ratings and comments on our web site with the confidence that they are all based on verified visits. We post all patient feedback relevant to the entire visit and only refrain from posting comments that are libelous, profane, or those that risk the privacy of our patients.
The below guide provides details about how we collect and share our patient feedback.
Who runs the survey?
ARC partnered with Press Ganey to collect patient feedback about their doctor’s visit. We gather feedback from text surveys that are sent after the visit. Press Ganey is an independent third party customer feedback company that provides the technology to collect the feedback and display ratings and comments on our web site. All ratings are submitted by actual patients and verified by ARC.
How do patients receive the survey?
Patients for whom we have a mobile phone number receive a text survey within two hours of checking in for their visit. Patients are asked to complete the survey and provide ratings and comments regarding their experience at different touch points of their visit. We use this feedback to recognize doctors and staff, identify issues we can correct, and enhance our care.
Do you post all positive and negative comments?
ARC posts all positive and negative patient feedback that is relevant to the entire visit. We refrain from posting comments that are libelous, profane, or those that risk the privacy of our patients.
What questions do we ask?
ARC asks questions that touch on the overall patient experience related to their visit. Anyone seeking detailed information about each question can view the ratings for each specific question on the Reviews tab on the provider bio page on the website. We calculate our provider star ratings based on the responses to question number six below. We calculate our location star ratings based on the responses to all the below questions.
Rate how easy it was to make your appointment.
Rate the helpfulness of the front-desk staff.
Rate the helpfulness of the doctor's nurse and/or medical assistant (MA).
Did the healthcare provider or doctor provide the care you expected?
How likely is it that you would refer a friend/family member to this doctor or NP/PA?
Please let us know anything that you particularly liked or disliked about your experience with today’s office visit.
Why don't all providers display a rating?
Since more recent data provides a more accurate picture, we require a minimum of 30 patient surveys per doctor in the last 12 months before we post a physician’s rating.
Why can I only see comments from the last 90 days?
ARC physicians and staff review all comments and act to rectify issues. Since the purpose of the feedback is to allow us to improve the overall patient experience, we display the last 90 days of comments which are the most relevant for the practice.
Can anyone complete a survey or post a comment about a physician?
No. Only patients having an outpatient visit by an ARC physician receive a survey. The results are based entirely from patients who have actually been treated by the physician in our clinics.
How is patient information protected?
Comments are reviewed and approved prior to being published to the website. If a comment contains any personally identifiable information, that information will be removed from the comment.
June 21, 2024
I was totally satisfied with my visit in & out. My MA was great & Dr. Garcia is always helpful with making medical decisions. I appreciate coming to this clinic.
June 20, 2024
Prompt and friendly responses from all personnel
June 20, 2024
I appreciate greatly that Dr. Garcia takes time to listen to my concerns and address them. It is reassuring and helps me feel empowered in my health care journey. I am working WITH him to have good health. Not being TOLD how to be healthy. That is very important to me.
June 20, 2024
I highly recommend going to ARC for health care concerns. Dr Garcia truly cares about his patients. He is an amazing Dr.
June 20, 2024
Excellent visit Doctor Garcia has always provided me top quality health advice. He properly diagnosed my condition and provided the best treatment plan. He listens and include me in the best resolution for my health concern.
June 19, 2024
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