Compassionate Primary Care focused on Seniors that gives you MORE than 7½ Minutes with your Doctor!

Joining me for this episode is Dr. Stephanie Ikeme, the regional medical director for CenterWell Senior Primary Care. And here's why this is different. CenterWell is a unique practice and very unique in the way they deliver health care. And their results are significantly different. 15 minutes is the average the average time spent with the your primary care doctor and in reality, seven and a half minutes is what you get. Contrast that with the Dr. spending 45 minutes to an hour with the patient when they come in to sit down. Dr Ikeme: “Because we want to treat the whole person. Health is not only just the disease and the medication. There's lots of factors we need to know, how they're living, who's taking care of them, what resources do they have? Are there barriers to how they can take care of their health? That takes time. That takes getting to know the patient. And you can't do that in seven and a half minutes. Our job is to get to know the patient in every aspect of their lives, to make sure that we give them the most success, to have better outcomes for their health.” This is radically different than the fee for service model with the average physician or primary care model of a hospital or a large primary care practice with a patient load of 1000 patients or more typically. Join me for this fascinating episode (Ep 1922). Contact Cary Hall: https://www.americashealthcare....advocate.com/contact Learn more about CenterWell Senior Primary Care 913 914 8202 https://www.centerwellprimarycare.com Stephanie A Ikeme, DO https://www.centerwellprimarycare.com/en/doctors/stephanie-ikeme-do-staff-physician.html CenterWell Market President Andrew Hare https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-hare-0a5310b/