Integrated Practice Prototype

The Medical Center of Powdersville ambulatory care center’s primary purpose is to be a community-based primary and subspecialty care integrated group practice. It is designed to fundamentally alter referral patterns and utilization in a tertiary system’s secondary catchment markets. The experience of 500 on-staff physicians, having practiced and continuing to practice in multiple facilities throughout the Upstate, was brought to bear in configuring the idealized patient-and provider-centered environments in the first-of-its-kind group practice model for the state’s largest tertiary medical system.

This state-of-the-art, discreetly designed ambulatory care facility accommodates a group of 8 users and serves as a pioneering referral gateway for a significant joint venture with a large university medical center. The facility spans 31,000 square feet, incorporating 8 meticulously planned components. It is engineered to optimize ambulatory care processes, ensuring low operational costs, high net-to-gross efficiency, and an ideal staff-to-physician/caregiver ratio.

The design and operation of the environments are grounded in evidence-based practices, peer-reviewed and rigorously mock-tested. This ensures that, from opening day, every process, whether IT or material-related, has been thoroughly vetted for efficiency and effectiveness. Additionally, the facility is designed for future expansion along its major axis, featuring clear and intuitive wayfinding for easy navigation.