Jarvis Sanchez, M.D.

Dr. Jarvis Sanchez just joined CenterWell’s Morrow facility in Georgia as a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist. He speaks English and Spanish and has spent over 14 years working in his profession. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, Sanchez moved to New York to complete his residency at Rochester Regional Health. Ever since he was a child, it was Sanchez’s dream to become the first doctor in his family, and he is grateful and proud of his achievement “against all odds.” According to Sanchez, “Seniors are the best and most important people in the world.” And he has dedicated his career to caring for them. Prior to joining CenterWell, Dr. Sanchez was a primary care physician providing rehabilitative transitional care for seniors at St. Ann’s Nursing Home in Rochester New York for 11 years, later becoming Associate Medical Director from 2017 to 2021. He also worked at Rochester General Hospital Wound Healing for a total of seven years and spent three years in a geriatric practice. During this time, he was also Medical director for the Episcopal Church Home, also in Rochester. Sanchez enjoys the daily interaction with his patients, their stories, and the learning experiences he has gained from them. He sums up his philosophy of care as: “Cure sometimes, treat often, but comfort always.” He believes in open communication and listening to his patients, and he defines the right doctor-patient relationship in one word: Respect. Dr. Sanchez and his wife were both born in Puerto Rico and all three of their children were born in New York. He admits that while his kids understand and speak Spanish, they prefer to speak English. When Dr. Sanchez is not caring for patients he enjoys watching a good TV series with his family, running and lifting weights. The words he lives by are “count your blessings, not your problems.”