San Francisco-based healthcare giant Dignity Health announced Tuesday a new partnership with San Francisco-based One Medical Group to open three membership-based, tech-focused primary care clinics Arizona.
The One Medical primary care offices, which have successfully launched in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C., leverage technology to dramatically reduce the overhead costs of providing primary care, which allows physicians to spend more time with each patient, according to Rich Roth, vice president of strategic innovation at Dignity Health.
"Dignity Health has a philosophy of developing various partnerships in the community with organizations that are best in class and then aligning them within our network," says Mr. Roth. "We really feel that as healthcare moves to a greater environment of choice, where people are more responsible for their care decisions, they will be making differential choices, and we believe people will want choices like One Medical."
For an annual fee, patients have access to a variety of tech-enabled health services, including 24/7 virtual care and same day appointments. However, One Medical is not concierge medicine — the practices still accept insurance to cover a portion of healthcare costs.
Dignity Health will provide connections and support through its clinically integrated network of physicians as One Medical launches the three new locations in Phoenix, Gilbert and Scottsdale, which are expected to open in the next two months.
The group has already signed the Arizona Diamondbacks to be its first enterprise customer in Arizona.
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