(Providence, RI) - Arches Medical Group announced today that it is joining Integra Community Care Network. Arches’ 40 Rhode Island Primary Care Providers will leave CharterCare Provider Group, a Prospect Medical Holding member, to partner with Integra Community Care Network, LLC, which is an affiliate of Care New England Health System.
”Arches was created with the goal of reinventing the way primary care is delivered,” said Arches founder Chris Kryder, MD. “We want to increase access and quality for patients and remove barriers that lead to physician burnout and frustration. The Rhode Island healthcare market which we entered this year is fragile. Integra provides the stability we need to fulfill the promise of primary care for the communities we serve.”
Integra is nationally recognized as a leader in population health and value-based care. Integra has developed innovative programs that help physicians and primary care clinicians improve the health of their patients while also increasing patient and clinician satisfaction and lowering the cost of care.
“We are so pleased to welcome Arches Medical Group and its Primary Care Providers into the Integra network,” said Ana Tuya Fulton, MD, Integra President and COO. “Bringing more outstanding clinicians together, especially a group such as Arches that share our desire to create true primary care transformation, allows us to improve the services to and health of more Rhode Islanders. Equally important we can build a system where primary care teams feel joy in work again.”
“It was extremely important to us to be part of a network that values the voice of the physician and engages physicians to capture their ideas for improving primary care,” said Scott Wilson, an Arches Medical Group physician in Cumberland. “We also wanted a proven and trusted name that was innovative and willing to think about healthcare in non-traditional terms. We found these qualities in the welcoming and physician-centric leadership of Integra.”
With more than 10 years in the Rhode Island market, Integra has deep experience working with health plans and social service organizations; it has been a leader in the successful implementation of new payment methods such as pay for performance and value-based/risk-based contracting. Nationally, Integra has been recognized for its commitment to care models that keep patients out of the hospital, including Integra at Home, partnerships with community paramedics, team-based care, patient-centered, goals-driven care management, behavioral health services in the physician’s office and social support services addressing food, housing, and other needs.
“Primary care is the cornerstone of the healthcare system, and it is the place where we can have the greatest impact in improving health care. As a primary care physician myself, I wanted Arches to have the best partner to reshape the practice of primary care. Integra is hands down that partner,” said Kryder.
Arches Medical Partners (AMP) is a Boston-based physician-owned and operated medical group practice organization. AMP negotiates and manages global risk contracts for its medical groups and Independent Practice Association (IPA) partners. The Company leverages its proprietary NEMO (New Era Medical Operations) technology to help physicians successfully manage their patient’s medical care.
About Integra Community Care Network, LLC
Integra Community Care Network is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certified Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with more than 120,000 covered lives. Its participating provider network includes its founding organization Care New England Health System, independent pediatric and primary care practices and medical groups, and employed and affiliated physicians. Integra was also named an Accountable Entity by the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services in 2016.
About Care New England
Care New England Health System is a trusted organization that fuels the latest advances in medical research, attracts the nation’s top specialty-trained doctors, hones renowned services and innovative programs, and engages in the important discussions people need to have about their health and end-of-life wishes. Care New England is helping to transform the future of health care, providing a leading voice in the ongoing effort to ensure the health of the individuals and communities we serve.
CNE was founded in 1996, and today it is the parent organization of Butler Hospital, Kent Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Care New England Medical Group, the VNA of Care New England, The Providence Center, and Integra, a certified accountable care organization (ACO). Care New England includes 970 licensed beds and 216 infant bassinets. Through Butler, Kent, and Women & Infants hospitals, Care New England has a teaching and research affiliation with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Kent is also a teaching affiliate of The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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