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MultiCare South Hill Family Medicine

Primary Care • Puyallup, WA

About

MultiCare South Hill Family Medicine in Puyallup, WA provides comprehensive primary care for adults and children of all ages. Services include wellness care, treatment for common illnesses, chronic disease management, physicals, vaccinations, screenings, family planning, and care coordination with specialists.

Clinic Type

Primary Care

Address

16515 Meridian Ave East, Suite 104-A, Puyallup, WA 98375

Phone

253-792-6650

Email

annualgiving@multicare.org

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pm (Holidays: Closed)

Emergency Care

If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911

Services Offered

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Team

  • Doug Smathers, MD — Provider
  • Erik Willis, DO — Provider
  • Jessica Greb, ARNP — Provider
  • Michelle M. Thurman, MD — Provider
  • Srinivasa Meka, MD — Provider
  • Starr Matsushita, DO — Provider

Insurance & Payment

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Languages Spoken

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FAQs

Make an appointment

Schedule Online

Current patients

Book an appointment using your MyChart account. If you’ve seen the provider within the last three years, you may book via MyChart. If you don’t have a MyChart account, sign up at the provided link.

Emergency

If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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What Patients Say

Overall sentiment across review platforms: positive

  • Official MultiCare provider pages: Highly rated (e.g., individual providers often receiving 5/5 ratings) (Hundreds of ratings across various platforms for the facility and its providers)
  • BestProsInTown: Generally positive feedback (20 reviews noted) (20 reviews)

Patients praise

  • Knowledgeable, kind, and responsive physicians and medical staff
  • Effective, thorough, and clear communication regarding diagnoses and treatment plans
  • Long-term, multi-generational patient satisfaction with care quality
  • Welcoming and professional office environment

Common complaints

  • Difficulty scheduling appointments and long wait times for new providers
  • Concerns regarding high turnover of medical staff and providers
  • Occasional complaints about lack of effective solutions from inexperienced medical staff

"Superior care by a doctor who listens, cares, and above all practices. Dr. Smathers is an example for all doctors to learn from. If every doctor could be like him. The world would have less sick people because of his skill set."

— Official MultiCare website - Dr. Doug Smathers provider page

"I made an appointment to see an ARNP and was told I couldn't get in to see her for over a month. About a week before the appointment I received a letter stating she was leaving at the end of the month. ... Very disappointed with this clinic."

— A Better Place (community review site)

Synthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].

Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 11, 2026.

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