DESERT COUNTRY PIONEERS, CONT. On the front lines Mosaic Medical is the medical sponsor of four school-based health centers; operates a clinic three or four days a week out of a former laundry room in a low-income apartment building in Bend; and runs a mobile unit to provide care at shelters for mostly homeless patients. One Mosaic Medical location, Harriman Healthcare, is embedded in the Deschutes County mental health day treatment facility, where the primary care provider and her team serve a population of severe and persistently mentally ill patients. Mental health patients tend to have high rates of morbidity and mortality, but the The Mobile Community Clinic helps Mosaic take its show on the road. number of patient deaths “substantially decreased” after a provider started working there several days a week, Pierson said. The organization’s Complex Care Center houses both the Mosaic Medical Internal Medicine Clinic and Bridges Health, the result of a community collaboration and designed to address patients who are “high utilizers” of care and have complex needs, she said. The Oregon Primary Care Association, a nonprofit membership organization that includes Mosaic Medical and Oregon’s other federally qualified health centers and safety net clinics, “helps us think of teambased approaches” to care, she said. 16 Medicine in Oregon www.theOMA.org
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