We have received your calls, emails, and MyChart messages. First and foremost, we want to thank you for your understanding. We are trying our best to keep everyone updated about a rapidly changing local and nationwide vaccine distribution plan.

The most important message in today’s update is to encourage all of you to use any option to obtain your first dose of vaccine from any approved entity offering it.

Austin Regional Clinic’s Population Health team volunteered at the Central Texas Food Bank, sorting, packing and moving food to help nourish hungry people and lead the community in the fight against hunger.

Thank you for your patience as we wait for additional vaccine supplies. In the forty years that we have cared for the community, ARC has never experienced a vaccination effort of this magnitude and urgency. We understand and share our patients’ and the community’s wishes to distribute available vaccine quickly and effectively.

Drew D. Benac, MD has joined Shao-Chun Rose Chang-Jackson, MD in offering Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) services at ARC Center Street.

Shao-Chun Rose Chang-Jackson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, has begun seeing patients at ARC Center Street, ARC’s newest location In Kyle.  Dr. Chang-Jackson provides the full range of Ob and Gyn services, including comprehensive obstetric care, fertility care, laparoscopy, menopause treatment, STD screen and treatment, telemedicine visits, and more.

Austin Regional Clinic is pleased to announce that Drew D. Benac, MD, Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn), has joined the team at ARC Center Street.  

ARC staff is fielding your questions and aims to make it easy to find out when you can get your vaccine. With a current limited supply of 7,000 doses and over 50,000 ARC patients in Group 1A and 1B, it will take time to vaccinate everyone who is currently prioritized. Here is how we are doing it. Read more.

ARC has received its first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Based on CDC, state and local health department instructions, we have begun to vaccinate doctors and staff. We are inviting community healthcare workers, first responders, long-term-care staff and school nurses to request a vaccination at ARCshotrequest.com. 

“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Theresa.

Austin Regional Clinic wishes our patients, employees, and their friends and loved ones a happy, healthy, and safe Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year!

This year’s 34th Annual Junior League of Austin Coats for Kids drive has ended, and we want to thank everyone who contributed coats to this great cause! Through the generosity of our patients and staff, ARC was able to help our community and win an award in the process!

Dr. Anas Daghestani, ARC CEO, was honored as one of four “Healthcare Heroes” by the Austin Chamber of Commerce at its 20th annual Greater Austin Business Awards event on December 8.

The ARC Gastroenterology and Cardiology specialists have moved from ARC Far West Medical Tower to their location across the street in the Austin Surgical Plaza.

Austin Regional Clinic is pleased to announce that Stephanie J. Harris, APRN, FNP-BC, has joined the Pediatrics team at ARC Southwest.