Dr. Jennifer Allen is a board-certified family medicine physician and founder of New Freedom Family Medicine. She graduated from Oceania University of Medicine in 2012 and completed her residency training at Mercy Hospital, St. Louis in 2015. Before becoming a physician, she was actually a nurse and family nurse practitioner for 15 years.
She is also a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. Her family is the main reason she wanted to change from traditional insurance-based reimbursement to a Direct Primary Care practice. To reach her goals of being the best doctor, wife, and mom she could be, she needed the flexibility to do medicine her way.
Now with three clinical locations, multiple staff, and solid entrepreneurship skills, she continues to be the physician she always wanted to be.
In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Allen, discusses her journey of opening and managing multiple Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices. Dr. Allen emphasizes the importance of understanding the goals that one wishes to achieve when starting a practice. She talks about how her business grew organically from one practice to three practices, explaining that it is essential to consider the feasibility of opening a new location and the associated costs.