General Info

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. Most importantly, Access Healthcare works only for you, the patient; we do not contract with any outside parties that influence the outcome of your healthcare. We endeavor to keep the cost of medical care affordable and, more importantly, known to our patients upfront. As a by-product of this improvement in access, we hope to reunite the physician and patient in a more simplified setting, allowing us the opportunity to deliver a higher quality of care. To facilitate this mission, we have several affordable service levels from which to choose. 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. Originally from from BuffaloNY, Dr. Pullano came to Charleston by way of the US Navy in 1990 and completed her residency in Family Medicine at MUSC in 1995. In the capacity of Chief Resident in her third year there, she was given the honorable task of overseeing Dr Albenberg, then only an eager but somewhat unruly intern with the department. Ten years later, seasoned by the rigorous post-graduate training through a high-paced traditional practice, Dr. Pullano reunites with Dr. Albenberg to spread the concept of Retail Medicine East of the Cooper.