TenderCare Clinic in Greensboro recently received the prestigious Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Status. The Greensboro Clinic is the only Patient Centered Medical Home in Georgia’s Lake Country with the closest PCMH being in Augusta or Atlanta.

In the search for a higher quality, more affordable health care system, the Patient Centered Medical Home is rapidly gaining momentum and attention as an innovative approach to primary care.

Among primary care physicians and their professional societies, the patient-centered medical home has emerged as a promising alternative to the nation’s costly and fragmented health care delivery system.

The PCMH strengthens the physician-patient relationship by replacing episodic care with coordinated care and a long-term healing relationship. Each patient has an ongoing relationship with a personal physician who leads a team at a single location that takes collective responsibility for patient care, providing for the patient’s health care needs and arranging for appropriate care with other qualified clinicians. The PCMH is intended to result in more personalized, coordinated, effective and efficient care. A PCMH achieves these goals through a high level of accessibility, providing excellent communication among patients, physicians and staff and taking full advantage of the latest information technology to prescribe, communicate and track test results.

TenderCare Clinic CEO Lisa Brown stated, “All of the employees of TenderCare worked tirelessly to meet the qualifications to receive this prestigious status. The numbers speak for themselves as clinics that have achieved this designation show a remarkable decrease in hospital admissions, emergency room visits and medical costs. We are excited to be a Level 3 because being a Patient Centered Medical Home will give us additional options to provide world-class care for our patients.”

TenderCare has three clinics that offer comprehensive health services for the entire family. TenderCare Clinic in downtown Greensboro can be reached at 706-453-1201. For an appointment at Family Medical of Lake Oconee please call 706-453-4945 and to reach Family Medical of Milledgeville call 478-414-1414.