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2026 Medicare Advantage Senior Wellness Incentives
Make sure to schedule Senior Wellness visit for 2026! Don't miss this opportunity for your health as well as putting money back in your pocket!
2026 Medicare Advantage Senior Wellness Incentives!
Schedule your Senior Wellness Visit for 2026 today! Don't miss the opportunity to take care of your health and put money back in your wallet!
Hepatitis B Immunization Notice
HDMG/HHC follows the “Clinical Policy Guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics as evidence-based decision-making tools” The document is published in full and you can read it here.
Take a walk down memory lane with us!
We're thrilled to share our special tribute book celebrating 35 incredible years of the High Desert Medical Group Senior Health Expo – the Antelope Valley's biggest and most beloved senior event!
HDMG presents the 35th Annual Senior Health Expo
Mark your calendar and don't miss the highly anticipated senior event of the year. There will be free health screenings, entertainment, bingo, spa services and the senior of the year will be announced.
HDMG Senior Expo 2024
The video for HDMG Senior Expo 2024 is now available. We are so grateful for everyone who made the event such a success! We hope to see you all this y
HDMG Enrichment Center 2025
Visit the HDMG Enrichment Center to see what services we can provide and how we can help. We look forward to seeing you there. Check out our latest video to see what the HDMG Enrichment Center is all about.
HDMG Enrichment Center for Seniors
Did you know HDMG has an Enrichment Center for Seniors? Check out our video with some highlights on how HDMG is helping seniors and may be able to help you!
2024 HDMG Senior Expo Highlights
Check out our highlights from the 2024 HDMG Senior Health Expo!
Celebrating Excellence in Senior Care
HDMG is proud to work with distinguished partners in senior health care. We are taking some time to celebrate these partners and encourage you to take a closer look.
2024 Senior Expo
The expo will last from 9:00am - 3:00pm at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds.
HDMG celebrates seniors on November 2, 2023
Hosting the 33rd Annual Senior Health Expo. HDMG was proud to host the 33rd Senior Expo in the Antelope Valley. See the video and enjoy the show here: YouTube or Vimeo
HDMG AEP Letter - 2024
The Medicare Annual Enrollment Period has arrived! HDMG has information relevant to you about the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period (October 15 - December 7). Please review our AEP Letter here.
2023 HDMG's 33rd Annual Senior Health Expo
Don't miss this highly anticipated annual senior event!
2023 Senior Expo Save the Date and Nomination Form
High Desert Medical Group is proud to announce the 33rd Annual Senior Health Expo
Free Medicare Seminar
Choosing a Medicare plan that best fits your needs is one one the most important decisions you will make.
Free Medicare Seminar!
You’re invited to attend a FREE dinner and educational Medicare seminar!
Welcome Dr. Nianiaris
High Desert Medical Group Welcomes Dr. Natasia Nianiaris to Dr. Satey’s Pediatric & Adolescent Medical Clinic.
May is National Arthritis Month
Talk to your doctor if you are experiencing joint pain and other arthritis symptoms. Eating well, staying active, and protecting your joints are healthy habits to help manage arthritis –and good for everyone!
High Desert Medical Group welcomes Unified Health Associates to our team!
Atef Mousa, D.O. - Board Certified Internal Medicine, Language: English/Arabic, Medical Education: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Cervical Cancer is Preventable
Join us for an educational event to learn how to prevent cervical cancer by getting informed and getting vaccinated.
Free Medicare Seminar
You’re invited to attend a FREE dinner and educational Medicare seminar!
Attention! CVS Will Close At Our Facility in March
CVS will close their location at 43839 15th St. West in Lancaster effective March 29, 2023.
HDMG recognizes Dr. Ziaee
High Desert Medical Group recognizes Dr. Ziaee for his outstanding patient care and dedicated service in providing a 5 star experience for patients of the Antelope Valley.
Free Medicare Seminar!
You’re invited to attend a FREE dinner and educational Medicare seminar!
Medicare Presentation
“Paying for my prescriptions was getting hard. Thankfully, VIRA told me I qualify for extra benefits.”
Building Homes For Veterans
Volunteers of High Desert Medical Group joined the Homes4Families veterans nonprofit building more than 50 homes in Palmdale for veterans otherwise locked out of heated Southern California market.
Senior Expo Throughout the Years
2021 Senior Expo (Online due to COVID): https://hdmgseniorexpo.com/2021/index.php
Dennis Anderson – Why I Am Vaccinated
Dennis Anderson, Medical Social Worker for High Desert Medical Group, talks about why he is vaccinated against COIVD-19. The second video has Spanish subtitles.
Choosing A Medical Group
This video takes you step-by-step through how healthcare works so that you can choose the appropriate medical group for your healthcare needs. Please call 661-945-5984 to speak with our Member Services team with any questions about High Desert Medical Group.
HDMG honored by Homes For Families
High Desert Medical Group is honored by Homes for Families for their generosity. Their organization and employees donated time and money to build homes for veterans in the Antelope Valley.
HDMG Nominated Great Place to Work – 3 years in a row
High Desert Medical Group, a multi-specialty medical group which serves patients in the Antelope Valley, announced for the third year in a row that it has been certified officially as a “Great Place to Work,” an achievement based on verified employee feedback. The information from High Desert Medical Group employees is validated through the trademarked “Great Place to Work” organization’s rigorous, data-driven For All methodology. The organization’s official certification confirms 8 out of 10 employees have a consistently positive experience at High Desert Medical Group. The “Great Place to Work” data aggregation service is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue and increased innovation.
Covid-19 Clinic Holiday Hours
Updated Holiday Hours from December 21, 2021 through December 30, 2021.
Health Education – Flu Shot
This health education video from the CDC outlines the best healthcare practices for what to do when you have the flu. When in doubt, call your healthcare provider.
Is the Booster Shot right for You?
Ask your provider if a COVID-19 Booster Shot is right for you.
2021 Senior Expo!
Join us this year for our second annual virtual Senior Expo. The Senior of the Year will be announced. There are fun games and activities to enjoy, and giveaways will be announced all day.
Homes For Veterans
At Saturday’s event, CEO Donna Deutchman accepted a $50,000 check from previous Homes4Families honoree, employees of The Boeing Co., and announced that High Desert Medical Group will be the 2021 Honoree at the non-profit group’s Annual Builders Ball to be held later this year.
Appreciate the military during the month of May
By DENNIS ANDERSON Special to the Valley Press May 5, 2021
Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Timeline
To safeguard our most vulnerable patients and community members, we are vaccinating in phases. Please refer to the updated chart below or visit http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/ncorona2019/covidvaccinedistribution/ for the schedule.
2021 COVID-19 VACCINE SCHEDULE
To safeguard our most vulnerable patients and community members, we are vaccinating in phases. Please refer to the below chart or visit http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/ncorona2019/covidvaccinedistribution/ for the schedule.
Coronavirus COVID-19 Community Resources
This will be updated as we learn more about what is available to those in our community.
2020 Senior Expo
Join us this year for our first ever virtual Senior Expo. The Senior of the Year will be announced. There are fun games and activities to enjoy, and giveaways will be announced all day.
HDMG Patient Testimonial – Elisabeth Fox
Elisabeth Fox is happy that she has been one of Dr. Mihir Patel’s patients for about 18 years. When she learned that he was practicing with High Desert Medical Group, she also joined the group to receive her health care.
At 98, HDMG member Dean Funk likes to keep up with what’s going on
By Dennis Anderson, HDMG Community Relations
Video Instructions For Online Provider Visits
For a smoother experience with your tele-health visit with an HDMG provider, please watch the video below for helpful tips. For technical assistance in connecting with your provider, please go to ottohealth.com/patient-resources.
HDMG is available for Community Testing
Beginning April 1st, 2020, HDMG is partnering with the City of Los Angeles, L.A. County and the City of Lancaster to provide testing to our Antelope Valley residents.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Class
High Desert Medical Group and Heritage Health Care are proud to offer our COPD patients pulmonary rehabilitation classes. A referral may be needed. Pl
COVID-19 Managing Stress and Anxiety
Managing Your Stress During the Covid-19 Health Emergency
CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
Dear Valued High Desert Medical Group Healthcare Member:
Virtual Visits for Corona Virus!
If you are exhibiting symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 infection – fever, cough, sore throat, and increased phlegm call us first for instructions (800) 424-2273. Do not come to the urgent care or your primary care physician (PCP) office even if you are experiencing only mild symptoms. Call us and begin a self-quarantine. Most patients will be managed at home. Only visit the ER if you are experiencing severe respiratory conditions and are having trouble breathing. Otherwise expect to be given instructions on self-care under home isolation.
Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19
The novel coronavirus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19, has infected some people in the United States. However, most of those cases have been associated with travel to at-risk areas. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the potential public health threat posed by COVID-19 is very high. At this time, however, most people in the United States will have little immediate risk of exposure to this virus as it is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States.
2019 HDMG Senior Expo with Dawn Wells!
High Desert Medical Group is proud to present our 29th Annual Senior Health Expo!
HDMG Named Great Place To Work 2019-2020
High Desert Medical Group Earns ‘Great Place to Work’ ranking
Do you know Senior Heroes?
Nominate a senior that you think deserves recognition as the “2019 HDMG Senior of the Year.”
Breaking Barriers In Neurosurgery and Immunotherapy
The collaboration of Dr. Francesco Prada and Dr. Frederic Padilla, both Merkin Fellows working with the Focused Ultrasound (FUS) Foundation, brings advancements in neurosurgery and surgical oncology closer to reality. Together, these brilliant scientists seek ways to optimize treating some of the most difficult and progressive brain tumors and cancers known to humankind.
Better Patient Experience for Humana Medicare Advantage Members
(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a leading health and well-being company, today announced it has collaborated with Heritage Provider Network (HPN), one of the nation’s most experienced and effective physician-led value-based care organizations, on a value-based agreement designed to offer a coordinated, patient-centered experience to help Humana Medicare Advantage members in Southern and Central California achieve better health.
Excellence Survey 11 Years in a row
Heritage Provider Network (HPN) one of the nations most experienced and innovative physician led value based care organizations, and its family of medical groups has earned the highest rankings of Elite Status awarded for providing outstanding quality care from America’s Physician Groups (APG). This is the 11th consecutive year HPN has achieved Elite Status in APG’s 2018 Standards of ExcellenceTM (SOE®) survey. (www.heritageprovidernetwork.com)
qHMO Enhances Patient Care and Delivery
During our in-depth interview with the Heritage Provider Network (HPN) qHMO team, we discovered the many ways this technology and application are helping to bring automation and uniformity to enhance and deliver quality care utilization among physicians and healthcare professionals across the healthcare spectrum. The dedicated team responsible for this innovation development and design speaks to its features and functionality to highlight the many benefits of qHMO and its goal to streamline processes across HPN and its affiliates, thus creating improved and expedited information sharing and capturing to bring patient experience to a completely new level.
HDMG’s Fitness Zone Empowers Employees And Promotes Wellness
Improved energy. Fun challenges. Better health. These are just some of the benefits that High Desert Medical Group (HDMG) employees gain at HDMG’s Fitness Zone – an in-house, full-service gym. Daily classes focus on employee wellness, designed to accommodate diverse interests, including Zumba, Tabata, and Body Sculpting.
Dr. Merkin Honored with Inaugural Tommy Lasorda Leadership Award
“Dick Merkin’s business and philanthropic achievements are legendary and I’m proud that he partnered with me in co-founding the Milken Institute’s FasterCures Center…his many achievements – in healthcare, education and the arts – emerge from a profoundly personal commitment to making the world a better place.”
3rd Annual Heritage Healthcare Innovation Awards
Previous winners and judges of the Heritage Healthcare Innovation Awards discuss the impact of the program. Watch videos here: vimeo.com/255620975/365c3e6e1f.
Rhea Malik as the Class of 2018 Richard Merkin Fellow
Each year, one graduating college student is selected as a Merkin Fellow through the Schwarzman Scholars Program. The student chosen travels to China to pursue a one-year Master’s Degree. The experience promotes building relationships with other students from China and around the world to promote global collaboration that will help strengthen and inspire global relations for years to come.
Heritage Medical Systems And Signature Medical Group Announce Joint Venture
The partnership brings together two highly respected, experienced organizations committed to the Triple Aim of providing better care, better health and lower costs while adding a fourth element of improved care giver engagement. This will be achieved by combining Heritage’s long standing track record of physician led managed care and Signature’s quality and reputation in Missouri and beyond.
Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
In a recent Broad Institute article, Dr. Merkin was quoted as saying, “I am honored to establish this institute at the Broad. For more than three decades, I have been deeply committed to transforming healthcare through encouraging innovation and challenge, and I see this partnership as essential to realizing this vision. I am excited to see the transformative technologies that this new endeavor will yield.”
Saving Antibiotic Strength
For the past few decades, a critical topic of discussion has been the growing public health crisis around bacterial resistance which continues to increase exponentially. This crisis has many health organizations launching national campaigns to target awareness and increase efforts to find a viable solution by educating physicians, healthcare providers, consumers, and employers about appropriate antibiotic usage.
The Opioid Menace
The opioid epidemic is ravaging communities across the United States and impacting Americans of all ages.
HPN Earns CAPG Highest Rankings
Heritage Provider Network Earns Highest Rankings From California Association Of Physician Groups 10 Consecutive Years In A Row
NY Academy of Medicine Gala Honors Dr. Merkin
Video shows 2017 New York Academy of Medicine Gala honoring Dr. Richard Merkin, President, Founder and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Executive Vice President of Merck, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, President of the New York Academy of Medicine, and Jay Hancock, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
For more information about Pulmonary Rehabilitation, please click here.
2nd Annual Heritage Healthcare Innovation Award Winners
Winners were announced in the following five categories at a luncheon ceremony at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan:
Dr. Merkin Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference
The discussion will focus on how “technology has had a dramatically disruptive impact in medical research, perhaps most remarkably in genomics. Nearly two decades after the initial sequencing of the human genome, scientists are unlocking new ways to understand the cellular basis of disease through big data analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning.” The discussion will explore the importance of future challenges – where we are now and where we need to go.
2nd Annual Heritage Healthcare Innovation Awards
The awards will showcase those innovators who have most improved the access to and quality of affordable healthcare in the communities they serve in the greater New York area. Judges will assess the nominations to select five finalists in each of the five categories.
Heritage Provider Network offers Scholarships to Universities and City of Hope
High Desert Medical Group & Heritage Health Care, at the forefront of growth initiatives, salute Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, HDMG & HHC, for his contributions to research. Dr. Merkin and the Merkin Family Foundation announce multiple scholarship commitments to: the USC Keck School of Medicine, Cal State University, and City of Hope.
Heritage Provider Network Partners with Crain’s New York Business
“Honoring innovators who have improved the quality, access and cost of healthcare for New Yorkers is the goal of the Heritage Healthcare Innovation Awards,” said Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of HPN. “Using a diverse panel of independent expert healthcare judges, we will honor and support the clinicians, researchers, administrators and organizations that pioneer the newest models of diagnosis, treatment and care coordination. We believe honoring these leaders will bring needed recognition to their advances and ultimately help improve the lives of millions of New Yorkers.”
Diabetes Management Program
Please click here to learn more about our Diabetes Management Program.
Living With Osteoarthritis
To learn more about how to live with Osteoarthritis, please click here.
Caltech partners with Heritage Medical Research Institute
Partnership with Heritage Medical Research Institute Will Augment Translational Medicine Research
2015 Expo De Salud Video
Thank you to all those who participated in our First Annual Expo De Salud. It was a huge success with over 1,200 attendees celebrating health and wellness. Our guest celebrity, Angelica Maria, was very personable taking time to reach out to as many participants as possible. We hope to see you again next year!
HDMG/HHC Awarded Scholarships To Two AVC Students
High Desert Medical Group/Heritage Health Care awarded two nursing scholarships for the 2015 Antelope Valley College Foundation’s Scholarship Convocation. The requirements were:
Grace Resources and Painted Turtle Camp
High Desert Medical Group Delivers Barrels of Love
Dr. Richard Merkin Honored With Medical Visionary Award From UCLA
President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network recognized for transforming healthcare.
New Geriatric Urgent Care Center Open!
For more information regarding or Urgent Care Center, please contact our Member Services Department at 1-800-266-HDMG(4364) or 661-945-5984.
CAPG Awards Elite Status to Heritage Provider Network
For the 5th year in a row the California Association of Physician Groups has awarded elite status to Heritage Provider Network, the leader in innovative healthcare.
Dr. Richard Merkin to Moderate ‘Getting from Cure to Care’
Marina del Rey, California, April 30, 2012- Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, will moderate a panel discussion entitled “Getting from Care to Cure” at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 8 am pdt at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California.
HPN Named One Of The Global 10 Most Innovative Companies In Health
Marina del Rey, California- February 15, 2012-Heritage Provider Network has been named one of the global 10 most innovative companies in healthcare for 2012 by “Fast Company Magazine.”