ST. LOUIS — Next summer, a health care
provider for seniors will open three new locations here.
ChenMed, which serves low-to-moderate-income
seniors through Medicare, announced Tuesday that it would expand into five new
cities: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Memphis, Orlando and St. Louis.
ChenMed advertises a more personal care model,
where doctors provide patients with their cellphone numbers, and primary care
doctors each serve 400 patients on average.
A 2012 study published in the Annals of Family
Medicine notes that many primary care physicians in the U.S. serve more than
2,000 patients.
The company is opening three dedicated senior
medical centers in the St. Louis area in the summer of 2020, but expects to
continue expanding beyond that.
“We’re committed to the market,” said Gaurov
Dayal, ChenMed’s chief growth officer and president of new markets. “There are
a lot of seniors out there not getting great care, and we’re going to do as
much as we can.”
The new locations will be on Grand Boulevard,
Page Boulevard and North Oaks Plaza. Each will be around 12,000 square feet,
depending on space available.
ChenMed hopes to have six doctors at each
clinic by the end of the first year of operations, a spokesman said. In total,
the three locations could eventually serve 10,000 patients.
The privately owned company was started more
than 30 years ago in Florida. With the announced expansions, it will operate in
10 states.
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