Caring for 100,000 Patients
Community Care Physicians handles business so doctors
can focus on patient care
Each year more than 100,000 Capital Region residents are
leading healthier lives, thanks to the medical staff of Community
Care Physicians.
Community Care Physicians is a physician-owned,
physician-run multi-specialty medical group with more than
180 doctors and other clinicians practicing out of 35 offices
throughout the New York Capital District. True to its
name, Community Care Physicians is an organization dedicated
to ensuring that physicians oversee and manage all aspects
of patient care. Over the past 20 years Community Care has
grown because both doctors and patients recognize the special
value created when the physician is free to focus on the
practice of medicine.
At Community Care, our physicians have one primary goal: to provide
outstanding medical services to every patient they see. The
size of our organization allows us to provide business support
to all of our doctors, so that they don’t need to spend
part of their day dealing with salespeople and headaches
such as billing, scheduling, or other management projects — as
is the case in other doctors’ offices. Community
Care Physicians does all of the behind-the-scenes work, leaving
our physicians to devote all their time to quality medicine.
Dr. Shirish Parikh, chairman and chief executive officer,
says consolidating doctors under one company umbrella just
makes sense — both as a business and health care provider.
“In the late 1980s and early 1990s, physicians started
getting more and more distracted with management issues,
insurance issues and other outside forces tugging at them
from all directions,” Parikh says. “Doctors
in small offices often need to order their own medical supplies,
copy paper and a million other items needed to run an office
“If you deal with 25 vendors every day, it affects
a doctor’s efficiency with patients. We have
taken those hassles out of the equation at Community Care.”
Without
such burdens, doctors can spend more time with patients,
Parikh says.
“Quality communication time with a doctor is important
to most patients, especially the elderly,” he says. “We
don’t churn out the patients, as may be the case at
small offices and some hospitals. The doctors and support
staff who are part of Community Care Physicians medical group
take as much time as possible to answer a patient’s
questions and hopefully calm their anxieties. We pride
ourselves in providing a bedside manner in an office setting.”
Community
Care Physicians is a multi-specialty medical group, with
specialists in many phases of medicine including pediatrics,
internal medicine, family practice, general surgery, obstetrics
and gynecology, dermatology, podiatry, physical therapy,
radiology, occupational health, family practice, audiology,
and urology.
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