River Bend Medical Associates, Inc is offering COVID-19 vaccinations to those living in our community. As part of our mission to protect and grow the communities we serve, we are committed to health equality and enabling everyone (no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, or economic status) to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. River Bend Medical Associates, Read More
Updates From Your Doctors
River Bend Medical Associates will soon begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations to those living in our community.
As part of our mission to protect and grow the communities we serve, we are committed to health equality and enabling everyone (no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, or economic status) to receive a Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination. River Bend Medical Associates, Inc will soon be receiving a limited amount of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. We Read More
How We’re Managing Non-COVID-19 Care
#teamrbma places a premium on your health. We want you to know that we are doing everything in our power to help you safeguard it. From screening our staff’s health, including taking daily temperatures, to allowing many of our team members to work from home, we have all come together to keep everyone safe. If Read More
Expanded Access to care in West Sacramento
Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID and other viral illnesses this season. Please consider the following resources we have here at River Bend Medical Associates to prevent community spread. Regular Hours + Evening appointments West Sacramento is open for evening appointments. This will allow for fewer people in the Read More
3 ways to Engage in virtual health care at RBMA (West Sacramento and South Land Park)
Telehealth We have visits available daily. Please use your patient portal to request a Telehealth visit, and our scheduling staff will accommodate your request. On Call MD We have one of our medical doctors on call whenever our office is closed. 24 hrs on the weekends and holidays, and 5pm until 8am during the week. Read More
Meet Miguel Lizarraga M.D.
We enthusiastically welcome Dr. Miguel Lizarraga to #teamrbma. He completed his undergraduate education at Stanford university, and he graduated with a degree in human biology. He went on to earn his medical degree 8 years later at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center-School of Medicine in San Antonio, TX. He completed his residency through Read More
Apps to improve your health
Many of us have caught ourselves spending hours scrolling through our phones. There is no shortage of apps to download for our phones, from games to entertainment and even health. Why not put some of that scrolling to use? Here are free and helpful apps to download depending on your goals: Weight Management Losing Read More
Get your flu shot today!
“The worst in nearly a decade.” “The worst in over a decade” is how the 2017-2018 flu season was described by The New York Times. The CDC classified the 2017-2018 flu season as “high severity,” accounting for drastic levels of hospitalizations due to multiple factors. The flu impacted all age groups as severely as one Read More
Take care of yourself this fall and winter.
The leaves are turning, the days are becoming shorter, and the weather is getting crisper. There are many things to love and enjoy with the changing seasons, including Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, but getting sick is not one of them. Many factors play a heavy role in the increased susceptibility and spread of viruses during Read More
Eat this, Not that
Eat This not That So easy for all of us to get started with our New Years’ goals and begin to lose steam about a month in, but there’s no time for that! I wanted to create an easy to follow “Eat this not that” guide that you can use to develop some new meal/snack Read More
Easy, quick, and inexpensive meals
Easy, quick, and inexpensive. I often find myself trying to recall and suggest to patients different go-to-recipes I use in my kitchen. So to make things easier, I made a list of 5 of my favorite recipes. By no means are these “award-winning” recipes you will find on “Iron Chef” or “Chopped,” but they are Read More
Supplement of The Week — GI Advanced Probiotic
Supplement of The Week GI Advanced Probiotic River Bend GI Advanced Probiotic is a must for anyone trying to maintain the integrity of their gut flora. Composed of a special freeze-dried strain of 10 billion non-GMO Saccharomyces boulardii isolated from Litchi fruits. Who Benefits? An easily irritable gut: Most likely due to years of Read More