Primary Care Where Everybody Knows Your Name.

Bara L Vaida

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05318

Abstract

In Maryland communities such as Annapolis, Health Enterprise Zones have spurred investment and experimentation in care delivery.

Highlights

On its first floor, the building houses a nontraditional primary care clinic that provides the classic checkup with a physician and access to care coordination, behavioral and social services, and self-care education classes
“The learning involved was hard,” says Mitchell Schwartz, chief medical officer and president of Physician Enterprise at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), which took over funding of the Morris Blum clinic since the Health Enterprise Zone (HEZ) program ended in fiscal year 2017
“When I saw that address come up over and over, [some of us at the hospital] decided to get in the car and drive over there to see what it was,” says Czapp, who left AAMC in 2018 and is a medical director at AbsoluteCARE, a primary care practice with four locations that focuses on patients with complex care needs

Summary

Introduction

The building houses a nontraditional primary care clinic that provides the classic checkup with a physician and access to care coordination, behavioral and social services, and self-care education classes. “The learning involved was hard,” says Mitchell Schwartz, chief medical officer and president of Physician Enterprise at AAMC, which took over funding of the Morris Blum clinic since the HEZ program ended in fiscal year 2017.

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