Dfcic PCMH pilot

Region Within State: 
Portland Metro
Project Category: 
Other
PROJECT STATUS
Target Start Date: 
Monday, May 31, 2010

The project is designed to convert two commercial privately held 
urgent care centers to fully functioning PCMH .
Primary care will be provided by cells consisting of one physician team leader and 
as many  mid-level providers as that team leader can effectively manage.
Every effort will be made to document performance of key clinical and 
financial measures.

Metrics will be sought  to established the appropriate ratio of physician to mid level provider.
The mission of the PCMH is to proactively manage the patient population as well as the total

healthcare dollars allocated for them.

Type of Practices: 
Other
CONVENING ENTITY/PROJECT CONTACTS
Convening Organization Name: 
Doctors Family Clinic and Immediate Care
Primary Contact: 
Benjamin J.Schwartz MD
E-mail: 
Bschwartz@dfcic.com
Phone: 
503-997-3543
EXPECTED OR ACTUAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF PARTICIPATING PRACTICES
Number of Practices: 
1
Number of Participating Physicians: 
1
Physicians per practice: 
2
Types of Practices: 
Family Medicine/Urgent care
Health Plan Lines of Business Included: 
commercial
Overall Number of Covered Lives: 
500
Technology Characteristics at Start of Pilot: 

Estimated % of practices with practice management systems 100%

Estimated % of practices with electronic medical record          100%

Estimated % of practices with registry software: Other:           0%

PRACTICE TRANSFORMATION SUPPORT (INCLUDING TECHNOLOGY)
Services participating practices have added as a result of their participation: 

Patient Care Coordination

Technology that participating practices have added as a result of their participation: 

Patient Portal