Table Health in Michigan Expands Again

The Petoskey News-Review reported on the opening of a second location for Table Health.

Dr. Jill Butryn says physicians are looking for this kind of healthcare model, but can’t always afford to start their own practices in order to bring it to fruition. Jill Butryn and her husband – both retired physicians, both Traverse City natives and both fed up with what they see as major weaknesses in the industry to which they’d dedicated their careers – decided to do their part in supporting the cause by opening a DPC practices in their hometown.

Vince WinklerPrins is a family physician who was hired as the doctor for Table Health Petoskey. WinklerPrins is originally from Michigan and has worked in multiple states during his career, as well as Brazil and the Netherlands.

I was looking for a way back to Michigan and a way to practice in a direct primary care model. I am a family doctor with many years of experience and I was fed up with the constraints that the insurance based model put on my ability to take good care of my patients and on my patient’s ability to have easier access, more time with their doctor, and cost accountability in their primary care.

DPC News reported on the opening of the first Table Health in Traverse City that opened back in 2018. This first practice opened as a wellness-focused clinic offering functional medicine — which is a patient-centered approach to treatment, as opposed to disease-centered, according to the Eventually, Table Health added direct primary care (DPC) to its services due to demand from patients. The Petroskey location will focus solely on Direct Primary Care.

DPC continues to thrive!