Joshua M. Blessing, MD serves as a family physician in Alpine at the Southern Indian Health Council's 4058 Willows Rd clinic, providing integrated medical, dental, and behavioral health care to Kumeyaay Nation communities and the public. Acute-care cases requiring after-hours evaluation route to Alpine Urgent Care on Alpine Blvd, which shares the East County referral network. Dr. Blessing graduated magna cum laude from Point Loma Nazarene University with a B.S. in biology-chemistry, earned his M.D. from Creighton University School of Medicine in 2017, and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson in 2020 with rotations across Navajo, Tohono O'odham, and Zuni nation clinics. His rural-medicine training shapes a practice model that coordinates musculoskeletal referrals through Awesome Family Chiropractic - Alpine on Alpine Blvd. Clinical capabilities extend to point-of-care rapid strep, influenza A/B, and COVID-19 antigen testing with CLIA-waived instrumentation for same-visit diagnostic confirmation.