Reimagined Health: DPC With OB in Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Kids has announced the opening of Reimagined Health, which is owned and operated by Dr. Jacob Greuel and his wife Sandy, a former ICU nurse. After spending six years doing family medicine in Alabama, Dr. Jacob Greuel felt called to make a change. He closed his practice, then completed an obstetrics (OB) fellowship, where he delivered over 500 babies in one year. He and his family then relocated to Tulsa so that he could work at In His Image, a Christian Family Medicine residency program affiliated with Ascension St. John. So, for the last nine years, Dr. Greuel has divided his time raising his four boys alongside his wife, Sandy Greuel, while practicing inpatient and outpatient family medicine and obstetrics—all while helping teach the next generation of family physicians.
Dr. Greuel says his goal was always “taking A+ care of his patients,” but he was frustrated with the dominant American healthcare model, feeling the constraints of corporate medicine and insurance companies left him with too little time to serve both his patients and his family. Now, with opening Reimagined Health, Dr. Greuel says that he has finally found a way to sustainably deliver that personal connection to his patients in the Direct Primary Care (DPC) model. And because Dr. Greuel has also completed an OB fellowship, he is the only DPC doctor in Oklahoma currently providing pregnancy care within this model as well.
When I learned about Direct Primary Care, I was excited about being able to practice medicine the way I wanted to practice, to get to know families and care for them in a more personal way. People are not just their medical problems. They have a body, a soul, a spirit, a mind – if I don’t have time or energy or a relationship with a patient, I’m really only scratching the surface of what’s going on with them. DPC allows me to take more time with them.
The Greuels say they plan to grow the practice and they may add a female doctor this summer who will also do prenatal care. However, whatever growth is in the future, it will be done slowly and deliberately so that it is sustainable for both them and their patients.
It’s great to see another husband-wife team join the DPC Community.
Congratulations to Dr Greuel! I wish him all the best in his practice. I would like to make a correction to the article. Dr. Greuel would be the only DPC physician in Tulsa that is doing OB (at least that I am aware of). I have been delivering babies in OKC for the past 8 years as a DPC physician, and I have decided to stop after this month in order to have more time with family. Dr. John Long in OKC is also doing DPC with full OB services including C- sections.
Congratulations, Dr. Greuel!
Actually, Long Life DPC opened in the OKC metro area last summer and I am also Fellow ship trained FM doc providing full-scope care including obstetric care through the DPC model. We should collaborate to rejuvenate the access to full scope family medicine in the DPC model.
God Bless,
John Long, Jr. MD
LongLifeDPC.com