Compass Medical, P.C. Honored with Nesson Award for Collaborative Approach to
Delivery of Medical Care

Compass Medical, P.C. was presented with a Nesson Award for Collaboration from Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI), at the group’s recent annual meeting. The award recognized Compass Medical P.C.’s new Southeast Medical Center facility, which opened in East Bridgewater on July 30, 2007, and represents a new era in the provision of collaborative medical care on the South Shore.

At the recent Partners Nesson Award Ceremony in Boston, George E. Thibault, M.D., Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Partners Healthcare System (center) presented the Collaboration Award plaque to Compass Medical, P.C. Executive Director Jamie Barber (left) and Compass Medical, P.C. President George J. Clairmont, M.D. (right).

Named for H. Richard Nesson, M.D., PCHI’s founder and the former president of Partners HealthCare, Nesson Awards are given annually to PCHI physicians and groups who exemplify his commitment to improving care in the areas of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

The new 70,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility brings together Compass Medical, P.C., providers with ancillary services and independent specialty practices from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, South Shore Hospital and Brockton Hospital – all under one roof. In so doing, the facility helps create synergies and align incentives in a way previously not possible for primary care providers who are dependant on community specialists outside of the Partners network. By bringing together multiple services under a single roof, Southeast Medical Center has made possible the creation of multidisciplinary care teams across the boundaries of private practices, creating cost-effective and efficient care models. Such care team opportunities exist in musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, diabetic, oncologic, OB/GYN, reproductive and gastroenterological care.

Compass Medical, P.C. President George J. Clairmont, M.D. said, “This ambitious undertaking represented a massive amount of work, dedication, outreach, and relationship development within the entire Eastern Massachusetts health care market. The bringing together of all this expertise is unparalleled in our community. And the outcome – a new care delivery model that truly benefits our patients in an extremely convenient ‘one-stop-shopping’ facility – has been, quite literally, the talk of the town.”

“PCHI was founded with a commitment to improve both the quality and efficiency of patient care,” said PCHI CEO Thomas Lee, M.D. “The leadership at Compass Medical, P.C., through developments like Southeast Medical Center, is helping to make that vision a reality.”

In 2000, Compass Medical, P.C. won the Nesson Award for Innovation for its Diabetes Management Program. In 2004, Compass Medical, P.C., again earned the Innovation Award for its Electronic Medical Record Initiative, based on its Centricity EMR implementation.

Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. is a network of physicians and hospitals throughout Eastern Massachusetts. It is a member of the Partners HealthCare System, which was founded in 1994 by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Established in 1993, Compass Medical, P.C. is a physician-owned private medical corporation that has seven clinical sites located in Southeastern Massachusetts. These are located in: Abington; Braintree; Brockton; East Bridgewater; Holbrook; Taunton and Weymouth. The more than 40 primary care providers in the network care for about 85,000 patients.