(October 19, 2020)–After completing the necessary due diligence and operational preparations, IHA, the area’s leading multispecialty medical group, and Infinity Primary Care, PC, have finalized terms for the integration of Primary Care Internal Medicine and the Center for Family Care into IHA.
“Our goal in integrating these practices is to partner with the outstanding providers of Infinity Primary Care with to promote high-quality, patient-centered care to the Livonia community,”states Mark LePage, MD, and CEO of IHA. “We intend to hold true to our core mission of compassionate, patient-centered carethat delights our patients.”
“We are confident that the nearly 20,000 patients under the care of these two practices will be able to count on IHA to provide access to an extensive range of high-quality services,” adds Dr LePage. “And as the Medical Group for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, we are very excited to partner with Infinity Primary Care to extend our geographic reach into Livonia and western Wayne County as we furtherthe mission of our integrated delivery system in partnership with our hospital partner, St Mary Mercy Livonia.”
The integration with IHA brings together 15 providers and several dozen staff members from the following two IPC practices:
Primary Care Internal Medicine
- RandallSternberg, MD
- Lisa Harston-LeDoux, MD
- Pranay Korpole, MD
- Jennifer Kuc, CNP
- Sangeetha Nathabalan, MD
- David Steinberger, MD
Center for Family Care
- Stacy O’Dowd, MD
- Christine Brenner, MD
- Andrew Gush, DO
- Nicole Kohnen, MD
- Mark Michaels, MD
- Nicole Rothenberg, MD
- David Smeenge, MD
- Stacy Smith, MD
- Michael Wowk, MD
“This is an important step in aligning these twoIPC practices with IHA, and their associated residency practices connected with St. Mary Mercy Livonia, toenable us tobettermeet patient needs and provide efficient, cost-effective care,” notes Rob Casalou, president and CEOof Trinity Health Michigan. “By collaborating as a truly integrated health care delivery system, we will create a unified clinical and operational infrastructure with coordinated protocols and best practices, which will lead not only to better clinical outcomes but also to an improved patient experience across the continuum of both outpatient and inpatient care.”
IHA offers a breadth of capabilities thatis virtually unrivaled in the region, giving patients a single, trusted source for more of the medical services that they need at every stage of life.
“As we see IHA continuing to welcome new partners in the Livonia area, whether primary care or specialty care, it enables all of us to expand our regional footprint of services,” adds Dave Spivey, president of St. Mary Mercy Livonia. “We are not only preparing for the April 2021 opening of the new IHA/SJMHS Livonia Medical Centeron the Schoolcraft campus, but also actively making highly specialized services such as orthopaedics and plastic surgery available to our communities now.”
The timeline for the transition of these practices into IHA is December 1, 2020.