Emerald Physicians provides internal medicine services for adult patients. As Cape Cod’s largest primary care practice, our staff includes 12 physicians, 1 neurologist, 2 physician assistants, & 12 nurse practitioners who provide comprehensive medical care. We have 7 clinical offices on the Cape. Emerald Physicians offers its patients on-site laboratory, x-ray services & bone density testing. Our Patient Advocacy Dept, which is unique to Emerald, is entirely funded by Emerald. The 4 staff examine the needs of our patients & their families. The Patient Advocacy Department provides patients assistance and information on local services. Common concerns include: Hospice, bereavement, medical-legal issues, disabilities, home care & dementia. Emerald Physicians serves its nearly 30,000 patients in a federally designated Health Provider Shortage Area. Our internists focus on acute & chronic care,continuity of care, appropriate follow up, patient education, coordination of care & screening with specialists & preventative medicine.

In 12 years we have grown from 2 to 25 providers! Dr. Coyle our Medical Director is from Ireland, hence the name Emerald Physicians. Our staff is now from all over the world, Turkey, Pakistan, India just to name a few countries & we are a global practice. Just in the past few months, one of our Nurse Pactitioners volunteered in the Dominican Republic & one of RN's is volunteering in Ghana for the month of July. We are the only practice on the Cape with a Patient Advocacy Program & Healthy Living Program; Emerald has been on Electronic Medical Records for almost 10 yrs; we have our own state of the art laboratory; our New Patient Coordinator receives about 40 calls per day since we are one of the few Primary Care practices on the Cape accepting new patients. We have developed something very unusual - a sustainable model for primary care where burn out does not exist but positivity reigns. We think President Obama's team should take a hard look at Emerald Physicians.