About The Family Health Center

Our story

Built by two doctors who knew the valley

The Family Health Center was established in the fall of 1985 by Doctors Michael Moser and Linda Sloan. Each had worked for five years in Nome, Alaska, at Norton Sound Regional Medical Center, serving Nome and the coastal villages of Western Alaska, before moving to Palmer. Dr. Moser moved his family to Palmer in 1982 and worked for Valley Medical Center with Doctors Jim Ivey and David Werner. Dr. Sloan came to the valley in 1983.

At that time the Valley Medical Clinic was located in a wing of the hospital, which made it easy to cover the Emergency Room on weekdays, deliver babies in the obstetric ward and see hospitalized patients. With completion of the new Valley Hospital in 1985, the Denali Square medical office condominium across the street, on Dahlia, became available, and Dr. Moser and Dr. Sloan opened The Family Health Center there. The hospital soon hired full-time Emergency Room physicians, relieving the medical staff of ER responsibility.

Over the years the clinic has expanded and contracted. At its peak in the 2000s we had four doctors and three nurse practitioners or physician assistants, and operated a Wasilla site alongside our original Palmer clinic. We eventually closed the Wasilla clinic and concentrated on our original facility in Palmer.

Dr. Moser retired in 2015. He and Tammy now spend more time in Hawaii, tending their tropical fruit and macadamia nut orchards and building their dream home. Dr. Sloan began looking for replacements in 2016, and on April 1, 2017, ownership of The Family Health Center passed to Neil Nardini, PA-C, and Yvonne Gambini, ANP. They were excited to carry on the name and to keep providing excellent medical care to the tens of thousands of patients who have relied on The Family Health Center for generations.