District Medical Group Inc

Programs: Established in 1993, by 2010 our 350+ provider multi-specialty group practice evolved into district medical group, inc. (dmg), a physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare organization; the second largest in arizona and one of the largest medical offices in the phoenix area. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of individuals in the phoenix area and the entire state of arizona through this integrated group practice, focusing on patient care, education, research, and community service. We strive to ensure that our patients have equal access to the highest quality, safest care in the most appropriate settings, regardless of a patient's ability to pay. We seek to create and support new programs and services that reflect the needs of all patients, across all spectrums of life- from birth to the elderly, including the most vulnerable, the poor and the underserved. The heart of our mission is providing exceptional and compassionate medical care with no restrictions to our entire community. Dmg with its affiliates comprise 70 clinical sites, approximately 700 physicians, 150 non-physician providers, and over 30 ancillary clinic staff. In 2016, dmg served over 19,000 inpatients, 400,000 outpatients, and 103,000 emergency/walk-in clinic visits. During 2016 dmg's direct economic output, including the service economy, is estimated at almost $142 million. The indirect economic benefit to the community is significantly more. District medical group staffs the maricopa integrated health system, which includes a 325 bed acute care hospital, a 219 bed inpatient psychiatric hospital, twelve family health centers throughout the valley and a large diagnostic center. Dmg also staffs the internationally renowned arizona burn center, the 2nd largest in the us, admitting over 800 patients/year and serving more than 8,700 patients/year in an outpatient setting; the verified american college of surgeons level i trauma center, and level 2 pediatric trauma center; and the arizona children's center, a nachri-certified children's hospital, caring for well over 25,000 patients/year between the pediatric emergency department, pediatric intensive care unit, the neonatal intensive care unit, and the pediatric inpatient areas, with a dedicated area for pediatric procedural sedations. Among other innovative programs that dmg provides are the refugee women's health clinic, the first of its kind in arizona, providing culturally-grounded healthcare to the growing refugee and immigrant community, and mariposa: wings to safety, whose focus is on victims and families affected by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Through affiliation with maricopa integrated health system (mihs) and the university of arizona college of medicine, we are a recognized leader in providing high quality, innovative medical care delivered in a fiscally responsible and cost effective manner. As the largest teaching faculty in phoenix, we annually train over 230 residents and fellows, another 60 in affiliated programs, and supervise close to 500 medical student rotations. A majority of dmg physicians hold faculty positions with the university of arizona college of medicine, giving and attending clinical lectures and other academic events, and actively teaching and supporting scholarship and research activities. In recent years we have been involved in well over 100 active research projects, including industry-sponsored and nih grants. Dmg believes that creating an institutional culture of scholarship and promoting clinical research improves the health and well-being of all our patients and their communities. Dmg physicians are frequent contributors to national peer-reviewed publications and presenters at national medical conferences and workshops, holding active leadership positions in national and international medical societies. Dmg providers and employees furnish significant assistance and personal resources to the community as well as outlying areas through screenings, immunizations, and information/access to integrated services at health fairs; community outreach events highlighting prenatal screenings, rehabilitation, hospice, senior care, transportation and care coordination; back-to-school and holiday clinics for children and students; childhood and adolescent obesity clinics; and seminars promoting exercise and nutrition in our partnerships with local schools. Dmg physicians volunteer their time seeing patients at the arizona state health department, the crisis nursery, st. Vincent de paul, the red cross and scores of nonprofit agencies, centers and clinics across the county and the state. Awareness and sensitivity to the historical, cultural and traditional mores of the large hispanic and varied native american populations across arizona is a hallmark of dmg's longstanding commitment to making healthcare services and information accessible and effective for everyone, benefiting the entire community. Nationally and internationally, dmg's physicians have been on the scene wherever medical help is needed, bringing their clinical expertise to combat hospitals in war-torn areas, relief efforts in this country and abroad, and day to day medical crises and emergencies in the u. S. And many countries in africa and asia. Working with doctors without borders, the red cross, other relief agencies, and even on their own, dmg's physicians have made a difference and been gratefully recognized for their efforts and contributions, to the extent of receiving the "citizen service above self" award from the congressional medal of honor foundation. Dmg contributes regularly through community health improvement services, health professions education, subsidized health services, research, cash and in-kind contributions, and community benefiting activities.

the children's rehabilitative services (crs) program started in 1929 to provide medical services to children who have some of the most serious health conditions and who are enrolled in the arizona health care cost containment system (medicaid). The program in total serves over 24,000 members statewide with the dmg location serving approximately 16,000 children, including telemedicine visits serving the outlying communities. The crs multi-specialty interdisciplinary clinic (msic) was designed to present the unique ability to meet the health care requirements of special needs children by offering nearly all specialty, primary care, and behavioral health services in a single location. The dmg crs clinic provides a full spectrum of pediatric specialty care where physicians, therapists, nutritionists, child life specialists, social workers and a host of others can all work together providing vital medical care, behavioral health care and support services under one roof in a space specifically designed for this purpose. Through the use of a single electronic medical record, the dmg crs clinic improves efficiency and communication between the health care providers, with the goal of improving care while better managing costs. Dmg also operates the desert horizons integrative medicine clinic, specializing in behavioral health assessment and treatment of children and adults.