News and Events at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care

Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care’s Yul D. Ejnes, M.D., MACP Receives Prestigious Award from the American College of Physicians (ACP)

One of Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care's founding partners Yul D. Ejnes, M.D., MACP, of Garden City Primary Care, won the Alfred Stengel Memorial Award for Outstanding Service to the American College of Physicians (ACP). 

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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care Welcomes Women's Medicine Collaborative (WMC) Primary Care and the Obesity Medicine Program

04/1/2024 - As of April 1, 2024, Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care is proud to welcome aboard Women's Medicine Collaborative (WMC) Primary Care and the Obesity Medical Program.
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Six Brown Health Medical Group (LPG) Primary Care Practices Rebranded as Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care

02/7/2024 - Throughout 2023, Brown Health Medical Group (LPG) Primary Care and Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care, (both part of Brown University Health), worked closely together to provide a wider array of primary care services and programs to patients. 
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care Adds Six New Primary Care Physicians

02/15/2021 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care has expanded its primary care services by adding six new physicians to its offices across Rhode Island.
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care and Brown University Health Look to Join Together to Expand Health Care in Rhode Island

02/06/2021 – Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care and Brown University Health have signed a Letter of Intent to pursue an affiliation in which Coastal, a large Rhode Island independent primary care provider, would join Brown University Health’s comprehensive academic health care system.
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care and Brown University Health Look to Join Together to Expand Health Care in Rhode Island

02/06/2020 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care and Brown University Health have signed a Letter of Intent to pursue an affiliation in which Coastal, a large Rhode Island independent primary care provider, would join Brown University Health’s comprehensive academic health care system.
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From Two Sides Now

05/05/2017 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care’s President and CEO Dr. G. Alan Kurose is featured in this week’s Providence Business News’ “One Last Thing” section.
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What We Pay for in Health Care

04/17/2017 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care's President and CEO Dr. G Alan Kurose writes about the goal of the Triple Aim - better health and better care at lower cost - and how Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care is working hard to achieve that mission.
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care Is Included in PBS NewsHour Feature

02/09/2017 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care discusses its success to special correspondent Jackie Judd in this PBS NewsHour video segment.
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care, Brown University Health and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Collaborate on Shared-Savings Program

03/2/2016 - Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI), Brown University Health, and Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care have entered into an innovative accountable care agreement aimed at improving the coordination of primary, specialty and inpatient care.
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Share the Work, Share the Wealth: Lessons from Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care’s ACO Journey

02/11/2015 - Leaders at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care made the somewhat unique decision to distribute the organization’s first shared savings as an accountable care organization (ACO) among all employees, in recognition of every staff person’s contribution to improvements in quality and in cost control. Al Kurose, MD, FACP, is President and CEO of Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care, an ACO, Rhode Island's largest physician-owned primary care practice, a member of Rhode Island's largest physician-owned primary care practice, and a member of IHI's Leadership Alliance. In this blog post, Dr. Kurose distills some of what his organization has learned on its ACO journey, including why they gave every employee a share of the profits. Dr. Kurose is faculty for IHI’s Population Management Executive Development Program.
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Pharmacists Make Inroads As Members of Medical Homes

12/18/2013 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care's Pharmacy program is acknowledged in Managed Care Magazine article.
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RI’s Largest Primary Care Practice and UnitedHealthcare Offering New Health Care Model

03/28/2013 - Rhode Island's largest medical practice of primary care doctors is joining UnitedHealthcare in an effort to provide better coordinated and less costly health care, the two companies announced Tuesday.
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Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care Named RI's First Shared Savings ACO

07/10/2012 - Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care, Rhode Island’s largest primary care group practice, was one of 89 medical organizations designated as an accountable care organization, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on late Monday.
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Kurose Testifies at Senate Hearing on Health Care Reform

05/22/2012 - Dr. G. Alan Kurose, president and CEO of Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care, one of the largest group practices of physicians in Rhode Island, testified on May 16 before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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