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Building Bridges
Between Health Care
and Health
Morehouse Healthcare is comprised of more than 100
practicing physicians. All of our physicians are
full-time clinical faculty at Morehouse School of
Medicine with residents and medical students as an
extension of our practice which maximizes the
healthcare we provide and grants an academic
advantage exclusive to the next generation of
physicians.
The physicians at Morehouse Healthcare provide
medical support to nearly every major hospital and
clinic in Atlanta, GA.
Morehouse Healthcare is one of the largest
physician groups in Georgia and one of the state’s
premier primary care and multi-specialty medical
practices. Morehouse Healthcare’s focus continues
to be providing quality medical care to Atlanta’s
multi-cultural community.
Morehouse Healthcare engaged in several services
expansions over the past year that will help to extend its
expertise and outreach to a broader patient-base within
Georgia communities. Following are highlights from a
year of active expansion:
Clinical Information Technology
l An array of new patient-centered services were
established in collaboration with Atlanta
Medical Center (previously Tenet, now
Wellstar):
• GYN oncology at Wellstar AMC South
Campus
• Primary Care/Family Medicine at AMC
WJ Freeman Clinic
• Midwife call coverage back-up/
Obstetrics at Wellstar’s AMC Main through a partnership with Grady Memorial
Campus
Hospital to obtain Epic Care using the
l To address increased patient needs several community connect model.
services were expanded at the Atlanta Clinical Teaching and Service Learning
l Expanding the MSM Heal Clinic
Medical Center
• Plastic Surgery Emergency Room Call
Coverage The MSM Heal Clinic (medical student-run
• General Surgery Emergency Room Call clinic), serves patients with limited
Coverage resources, while providing MSM students
• Obstetrics at AMC WJ Freeman Clinic early supervised exposure to clinical
services. The clinic was expanded to the 1800
l Expanded Services at Atlanta University Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, Ga. clinical site
Center (currently provide student health at to include three clinics per month (two at
Clark Atlanta and Morehouse College, Good Samaritan Health Center and one at
intramural sports at Spelman College) Howell Mill Road).
• Sports medicine coverage at Clark
Atlanta University and Morehouse l Students Contribute to Global Health Equity in
College Haiti
l MSM was accepted in January, 2016 MSM faculty and MHC clinical attending
as one of 20 sites in the Integrated physicians led MSM Year 2 students on a
Care Leadership Program in Behavioral medical mission to Haiti for the seventh
Health and awarded $5000 Innovation consecutive year. Students, who generally
Grant pay for the trip themselves, experience
community health and gain exposure to
l The Lifestyle Medicine program, the need to advance global health equity.
Optimal Health, was launched in
partnership with the Department of l Students
Community Health / Preventive Research The MSM Student Internship Engagement
Center. with Interactive College of Technology
Program was held February through
April at MSM and March through May at
l EPIC and MHC: Advancing Health Records. Spelman College.
MHC was successful in attesting for 35
additional providers for Medicaid AIU (Adopt, Practice Operations & Clinical Network Management
Implement, and Upgrade) for FY2015, which MSM realized a substantial $1.2 million shared saving
resulted in $743,750 used to assist in financing from the Medicare Shared Savings Program with
the Epic Migration. Morehouse Choice ACO. In FY16, Morehouse
Healthcare significantly improved its patient Customer
l Epic was chosen as Morehouse Healthcare’s Service platform providing front to back-end training
future Electronic Health Record (EHR) for staff resulting in an enhanced patient experience.
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