Giving Back to the Community:
My long-term goal is to give back to the community
through this practice by providing medical care to those who "fall through the cracks" of our healthcare system. I believe that the best solution to the health care crisis will come from within our community.I am in the early stages of starting a non-profit clinic serving South St. Petersburg. This clinic will have the same mission and philosophy of Robinson Family Medicine, empowering patients to be healthy in mind, body, and spirit. It will also provide much-needed mental health care to those in need. We are looking to partner with local churches and non-profit organizations. I will continue to update this page as we move forward.
Updated 05/13/2010
The best solution to this health care crisis will come from within our community.
Community Organizations Links:
The following articles are examples of physicians finding solutions to the health care crisis within their communities...
So many people... fall through the cracks
4/23/08 CNN.comStory Highlights
Doctor quit private practice, sold her house to open clinic for uninsured Clinic is housed in restored Victorian-style rectory in old Pennsylvania steel town Patients pay what they can, even if as little as a dollar or 50 cents With help from volunteers, including doctors, clinic has reveived 40,000 patient visits...Read More...
A New Model of Charitable Care: The Robinhood Practice
Family Practice Management
February 2008 - Robert A. Forester, MD
This self-sustaining practice provides concierge care and indigent care in equal amounts. Here's how it works.
Seven years ago, I was a contented doctor in what I considered to be an above-average practice. Our group of seven family physicians earned incomes well above the national average. I had a panel of 2,600 patients and was taking six to eight weeks of vacation per year.
But our profitability came with a cost. We were passing patients through the office faster and faster, with more and more things falling through the cracks. Worst of all, many of my patients who lost their health insurance were no longer able to pay for the care they needed. I came to realize that I wanted something more for my patients and myself.
Healed Heart, Healing Minds
Sacramento Bee
Sunday June 1Viorica Bantea, who escaped persecution in Romania, inspires those around her at a Del Paso Heights clinic -- where she once mopped the floors... Read More
