Ampla Health Chico Medical, Pediatrics & Xpress Care

airfrank john _{on Google}

Feb 3rd, 2024

I met with Steve Krikoriantz PA of Dermatology today Feb 7, 2024 at Ampla Health Chico. I was very happy with my visit.
Steve is very knowledgeable, professional and treated me with care. I actually enjoyed my visit, he is very easy to talk with, helpful and I highly recommend him.
Bless your lucky stars if you require a Dermatology issue looked at and you get to visit Steve.
Frank Covich
Former medical center Consultant in New York.

Sailing Nomad _{on Google}

Feb 2nd, 2024

I came in here and had wonderful, fast, compassionate and professional care from Ellie at the administration desk and Travis and Lindsey from the doctors office. It's so hard to find a quality place for anything these days and to come in to see a doctor for a pretty serious health concern, it was beyond comforting to have a care team be so sympathetic to my concerns and prompt in addressing them. Thank you all so so much! :)

Brenda Robledo _{on Google}

Jan 31st, 2024

Dr Tyagi was rude to my friend. She was getting a letter for her companion animal to give to her apartment manager as requested. I don't want to go into detail but rude things were said and made them feel uncomfortable.

Dr. Roy Gerbil (Mrs. Bowers) _{on Google}

Mar 12th, 2024

Let me preface with the good, and the ONLY reason why Im giving TWO stars. Dr Singh and his team, specifically Nurse Tamara. My spouse and I see them for maintenance medications and always get treated with the upmost respect and care. Dr. Singh is highly compassionate, doesnt waste time, is thorough when needed and has a sense of humor. Tamara is awesome as well. She goes above and beyond for us and is very down to earth. There is no judgement with this department here.
However, I cannot say the same for the urgent care department at this location. We have been here several times now and been misdiagnosed twice, two separate family members. Ended up having to go to the ER. Secondly, I had two separate visits in the past two months and has been nothing but jerked around, misinformed, degraded, disrespected and interrogated, by the urgent care staff here. The first visit was with a NP that they call Mitka (sp?) and that Nurse basically provided me with a referral to specialist and didnt tell us so we went to our primary outside of ampla and got the same referral also..then, but as I found out, I also couldnt see any specialist for podiatry, accept for at Ampla, unless I was able to drive 40 miles away. So Ampla was my ONLY option as I can barely drive with this injury. I called Ampla to get scheduled (mind you, ive been off work now for weeks due to this injury and need to get back ASAP) and they tell me sorry but we dont take outside referrals...my mind was blown. But, nevertheless, I was determined to get into this specialist in order to get healed and get my butt back to work as quickly as possible. So as I spoke with the front desk lady, I was given a huge runaround and she treated us very poorly. She was rude and not very helpful. Eventually they told me hed have to establish PCP there at Ampla or at least be seen back in urgent care again to get the referral started again. So I scheduled todays UC apt. Today topped all the visits Ive encountered with Ampla. The medical assistant, was completely out of line, rude, obnoxious and disrespectful. She asked us about the previous visits and how I got here today or what was wrong basically. While explaining my wife and I were trying to get the important point across that I needed a referral to see a podiatrist, that we had received one from the Mitka lady in UC previously, but nobody told us, so we had my primary doctor from an outside office send one over instead, and that Ampla doesnt accept outside referrals, but now the first referral from Mitka is expired. She left the room, came back in and started questioning me intensely. In the middle of questioning me, she asked how come we didnt use the first referral and I told her, oh well I got one from my doctor instead and I didnt know Ampla made a referral so I told them no when they called me to schedule as my doctor had already done one as well, and she blurted out so, YOU cancelled it. As if I had tried to lie about how the referral ended or something which wasnt what was going on at all, we didnt know about it until after my PCP wrote me one already, so when the nurse called to get me scheduled, I told them I didnt need a referral because my doc was gonna send me out and find a podiatrist for me (not knowing at the time that Id HAVE to go to Ampla, which wasnt my first choice since Id had bad experiences thus far). So, today I got the referral again, and I finally have a podiatrist appointment..on April 29th 2024 (today is March 11th 2024) and this whole issue started back in JANUARY 2024. Ive been out of work the entire time as my profession requires me to stand for 10 hrs a day. There are a few more smaller instances of mostly the MED assistants treating us snotty or having horrible bedside manner in the very least, but even the UC nurse practitioners arent helpful or courteous. It's a stark contrast from the care we receive from Dr. Singh, let alone ANY OTHER CARE FACILITY WE HAVE EVER WENT TOO! we will no longer go her unless we absolutely have too.

Lily Agape _{on Google}

Feb 19th, 2024

My fiancee was JUST at Ampla today, 2/14... VALENTINE'S DAY, at 1145am, for an appointment with the rheumatologist her primary care doctor referred her to. She has had Fibromyalgia for the last 30 years and every other doctor has told her "it's all in your head", despite a diagnosis from UC Davis. THIS TIME WAS NO EXCEPTION. I am beyond disappointed. No one believes her, she is in constant pain, is depressed because none of her doctors are assisting her with her needs, which means that I have to pick up the slack for their incompetence.
Fibromyalgia is NOT linked to depression. It is NOT psychiatric in nature. It is a problem having to do with excess pain signals in ALL of the body's nerve cells. She is on a walker and has been for years. Because we currently live in a shelter and have to walk everywhere, the tread of one tire is completely gone and the other three have bits of the tread missing. She needed help and this doctor was completely unable or unwilling to do so. I will be mentioning this next time I am there in person as well.