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Atrius Health, an innovative healthcare leader, delivers an effective system of connected care for more than 690,000 adult and pediatric patients at 27 medical practice locations in eastern Massachusetts.
Atrius Health’s physicians and primary care providers, along with additional clinicians, work in close collaboration with hospital partners, community specialists and skilled nursing facilities. Our vision is to transform care to improve lives.
Atrius Health provides high-quality, patient-centered, coordinated, cost effective care to every patient we serve. By establishing a solid foundation of shared decision making, understanding and trust with each of its patients, Atrius Health enhances their health and enriches their lives.
Atrius Health is part of Optum, a health services company focused on building the leading value-based care system in the country.
Unique Aspects of Our Practice
- Decades of providing outstanding care for patients in our communities in Eastern Massachusetts.
- Largest, independent non-profit medical group in Massachusetts.
- Strong primary care foundation, with over 50% of our clinicians practicing primary care. We invest in practice supports and resources to help our patients stay healthy.
- Nationally-recognized as a value-based care leader, with over 80% of revenues from risk-based contracts.
- Early adopter of electronic health records (Epic), population health and data analytics.
- Veteran Epic client for over 25 years – first to adopt in Massachusetts.
- First ambulatory-only practice nationally to be recognized as HIMSS Level 7, the highest level of health information technology usage.
- First in Massachusetts to offer shared medical appointments.
- First in Massachusetts to offer one-day outpatient joint replacement surgery for selected patients.
- Collaboration with Medically Home to provide hospital-level care in the home.
- Organizational commitment to teaching and research activities.
- Unique collaboration with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to improve the patient experience.
- Sole allied member of The Permanente Federation, allowing our practice to learn from and share with the medical groups that are part of Kaiser HealthCare.
- Strategic affiliation with Firefly Health.
- Partner with Verily, an Alphabet, Inc. company, to better manage patients with heart failure.
History of Atrius Health
When you understand the legacy of the medical groups that comprise Atrius Health, it is easy to see why Atrius Health has become a healthcare leader nationally.
Our roots in the community run deep. Many of our patients and their families have seen our providers across multiple generations. They know firsthand that we are committed to designing and delivering outstanding quality care that is affordable, evidence-based, and connected to the community under a care model that allows resources to be utilized to keep patients healthier.
Atrius Health was first created in 2004by a few medical groups, including Dedham Medical Associates, Granite Medical Group, and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, that wanted to work together on improving quality, increasing the use of electronic medical records, and effectively managing care. These three organizations, known for their high-level of quality and commitment to their patients, wanted to work together to build a better model for care delivery and clinical collaboration. In 2015, these three medical groups joined together to operate under the Atrius Health name only, and PMG Physician Associates joined Atrius Health in 2017. In 2022, Atrius Health became a part of Optum.
For decades, Atrius Health has maintained a focus on patient-centered, value-based care. Our practice continues to innovate new ways of care delivery.
We are truly a unique healthcare organization and believe our future is strong. Thank you for considering joining our practice. We hope you join us to continue on this amazing journey.
Atrius Health and its predecessors have consistently forged the future of medicine by passionately searching for ways to better care for all patients. Our focus is and has always been on providing evidence-based medicine that improves our patients’ lives and on prevention.
Dr. Lopez was a practicing physician for 36 years at our Harvard Vanguard Medford practice and held numerous leadership positions over the years. He retired in July, 2018 and in 2019, received the Massachusetts Medical Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
System of Care
You became a healthcare provider because you wanted to make a difference for your patients, their families, and their communities. At Atrius Health, you will have the opportunity to work in a patient-centered, team-based environment that will enable you to deliver convenient, accessible and coordinated care for:
- Wellness and prevention
- Treatment of acute illnesses and injuries
- Chronic complex medical needs
Within our walls, Atrius Health offers robust primary and specialty care services, laboratory, imaging, pharmacy, physical therapy, procedural services, and more. We offer a weekend and after-hours telecommunications service that allows patients to be cared for by highly-trained advanced practice clinicians. We have also introduced home-based care services to prevent unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations and are rapidly expanding our virtual care capabilities to include consultations, teledermatology, and video visits for urgent care and behavioral health, with more programs in development.
An exciting career is waiting for you at Atrius Health. I hope you will join our team and create a healthier future for the residents of Massachusetts.
Our Collaborations
Our providers deliver high-value care and seamless experiences for our patients by leveraging our highly integrated model of care. We have built local and national partnerships with many other healthcare organizations, technology partners and payers that help us advance these efforts. In particular, we would like to highlight two of our strategic collaborations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Permanente Federation.
Governance
- We are a 501(c)3 non-profit healthcare organization.
- We are a physician-led organization, where there is a true physician voice in governance.
- The Board of Trustees includes Atrius Health physicians.
- Atrius Health physicians vote to select the Physician Trustees.
- The Chair of the Board of Trustees is an Atrius Health physician.
- Physician compensation models are determined by collaborative physician committees with representation from primary and specialty care clinicians.
- Physicians serve in leadership positions across the organization.