Access Healthcare

Specialties

Access Healthcare offers concierge family medicine in downtown Charleston, SC. We strive to be readily accessible for our family of patients because we believe that your health is always urgent.

Our membership plans will simplify your commitment to your health. Whether you have traditional insurance benefits or are under-​insured, we’ve designed our plans to better meet your urgent care, health maintenance, and preventive goals and have three patient-​focused care models from which to choose.

We are different in that we have created a relaxed, comfortable environment in which to be seen. Our limited practice size ensures easier access to your physician, same day appointments, face to face time, and night and weekend availability.

Urgent Care — full spectrum of services from sinus infections to laceration repair to orthopedic injuries

Continuity Care — management of chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes.

History

Established in 2003.

A premature casualty of a broken system, Dr. Albenberg retreated from the traditional insurance-​based practice of medicine in 2003 in search of a way to reestablish relationships with patients. With the success of the initial practice, our second location in Mount Pleasant opened three years later.

The name Access was derived from the expressed needs of patients towards the accessibility of their physician. We will do everything in our ability to promptly meet the healthcare needs of our patients, whether it is by telephone, e-​mail, traditional office visits, after-​hours care, or house calls. In keeping with our efforts to return to a more simplistic and traditional practice model, we will be limiting the size of our family of patients. By reducing our exposure we hope to increase our availability, eliminate long waits in the office and unnecessary visits to the emergency room.

Meet the Business Owner

David Albenberg, MD A.

Business Owner

Having received his B.A. from Tufts University in Boston and his M.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Albenberg continued his southerly descent to Charleston in 1994 to pursue a specialty in Family Medicine. Since residency he has been in private practice locally, focusing on disease prevention and wellness maintenance.

Considering himself a premature casualty of a broken system, he retreated from a high volume practice in December, 2002. Out of both hope and desperation, he envisioned and founded Access Healthcare, LLC, South Carolina’s first Retail Medicine primary care practice in 2003. He has been Board Certified in Family Medicine since 1997.