Here is an example of what happens when VCs get involved in trying to expand Direct Primary Care to the 10X they need to get rich. This DPC clinic for Dartmouth College started in 2012. And then the typical VC buyouts happened:
It first launched as Dartmouth Health Connect in 2012 in partnership with Iora Health, a private Boston-based company. Iora sold to San Francisco-based One Medical in 2021, and earlier this year, One Medical was sold to Amazon.
But did anything change?
“Although ownership of the practice has changed, they remain committed to providing the excellent health care and personalized patient experience that has been our goal from the beginning,” Provost David Kotz and then-Executive Vice President Rick Mills wrote in a May 24 message to employees.
Is that true? They initially had two physicians, a nurse, a practice coordinator, and health coaches when they started. How about now?
But a decade after it began, there are signs that the program may no longer be meeting everyone’s needs. The practice, now known as One Medical at Dartmouth, currently employs just one full-time provider, physician assistant Erin Storm, for about 1,300 patients.
In addition to Storm, the practice’s current patients are invited to turn to a “robust Virtual Medical Team who can treat many of the most common acute care needs patients have,” according to the email from Kotz and Mills.
And that is your answer and the plan for the DINOs. From two docs to one PA and a robust Virtual Medical Team and twice the number of patients that a normal DPC doc has.
The middlemen want their money!!
WARNING: DO NOT JOIN THESE DINOs. DO NOT SUPPORT THEM. THEY ARE NOT DPC.