Health District Announces New
4C’s Clinic Directors

La Marque: Today the Galveston County Health District announced the appointment of two new directors. After extensive searches the positions of 4C’s Medical Director, and 4C’s Dental Director have been filled.

Dr. Abdul-Aziz Alhassan began serving as 4C’s Medical Director February 26, 2004. Dr. Alhassan is a board-certified family physician with a comprehensive scope of practice from prenatal to newborn to geriatrics. He completed his medical education in Mexico and his family practice residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Dr. Alhassan speaks in favor of open access to care, productivity, and quality of care and has provided care to individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds including those that may be uninsured or underinsured. He also speaks Spanish fluently which is a great asset to the 4C’s Clinics. Dr. Alhassan states that “access to care is very important and I would like to see medical care more readily available through the 4C’s clinics’ whenever possible.”

In an effort to increase access to health care in the 4C’s clinics’ the District is emphasizing its evening hours when patients can be seen by medical providers. The Texas City Clinic located in the Community Family Center at 2000 Texas Avenue in Texas City is open until 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays. The Galveston Clinic in the Island Community Center at 4700 Broadway is open until 8 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays. To schedule appointments residents should call (409) 938-2234, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Those living in Galveston County with a 281 area code can call (281) 309-0255.

Dr. Beverly M. Foster has joined the District as Dental Director of the 4C’s Dental Clinic. She is a Hitchcock native who received her dental degree from the Georgetown University School of Dentistry in Washington D.C. Dr. Foster has over ten years experience as a licensed dentist. “It is always nice when a person can return to the community that they were raised in,” states Dr. Foster.

Dr. Foster intends to focus much of her time on improving the appointment system at 4C’s Dental clinics in an effort to assist the ever growing number of county residents seeking dental care. “I realize that many people have a need for dental care and I intend to evaluate our operations to insure that we can provide those services people most often find themselves in need of,” Foster says.

“Ultimately one measure of any medical clinics’ success is how well its leaders respond to patients’ needs,” said Dr. Mark Guidry, Chief Executive Officer and Health Authority for the Galveston County Health District. “We feel that these two Directors’ are top-quality and will bring patient-focused leadership needed to improve the medical and dental services offered through the 4C’s clinics’.”

Established in 1969 the 4C’s clinics’ provide primary health and dental care to area residents who have limited access to health care because of lack in financial resources or health care reimbursement.