Remembering Our Founder Dr. Bruce Elliston

It is with great sadness that we share the loss of our founding Medical Doctor, Bruce Elliston, MD. (Pictured – Dr. Elliston at The Family Health Centers’ 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2018.) He was an innovator and visionary who was among the first attending physicians in the new specialty of Family Practice at the MAHEC […]

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Celebrating our new identity as The Family Health Centers of Asheville, Arden & Hominy Valley

In December 2014 Asheville Family Health Center, PA officially changed its name to The Family Health Centers, PA. “Our new identity reflects our continued focus on providing easy access to quality family medical care.” said Dr. Wendy Coin, Medical Director. “We appreciate the opportunity to support the life-long health and wellbeing of Western North Carolina families.”

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The Family Health Centers Salutes Ken Minnich, MD

The Family Health Centers, with much gratitude and admiration, congratulates Dr. Ken Minnich on his retirement from the practice on February 1, 2015. We thank Dr. Minnich for eighteen years of service and for his kindness to patients, colleagues and staff.

“My time at the Hominy Valley office was all I had hoped it would be,” says Dr. Minnich. I greatly enjoyed getting to know and trying to help the people I saw there. The staff was exceptional, working together really well, so it was fun to work there.”

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