Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Collaborative health care at Liberty Mountain Medical Group
Mon, 15 Jun 2015Heather Bradley :: LU Marketing
Wellness is more than simply the absence of illness — it is the presence of excellence in physical health and emotional well-being. This is the position of all osteopathic health care practitioners and the ethos behind Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM). Committed to producing physicians who are knowledgeable, skilled, and proficient, while remaining grounded in professionalism, ethics, and Christian principles, LUCOM is dedicated to not only training competent and compassionate doctors, but to putting that competence and compassion to work for the benefit of surrounding communities.
And they’re wasting no time in making it happen.
Less than a year since opening its doors, LUCOM is ready to practice what it’s been preaching and, in cooperation with Central Virginia Family Physicians (CVFP), will be opening a community care clinic designed to serve greater Lynchburg. The CVFP partnership is the first of what LUCOM leadership hopes will be many mutually beneficial, collaborative alliances within the Central Virginia medical community.
The primary care clinic, called the Liberty Mountain Medical Group (LMMG), will be staffed by LUCOM faculty and CVFP physicians and is the first visible result of a Lynchburg medical community-LUCOM joint venture. “This patient-centered, primary care medical center will allow our students to see, evaluate, and participate in the treatment of patients under the supervision of physician instructors,” said Ronnie Martin, D.O., FACOFP-dist, dean of LUCOM.
Read the full story in the latest Liberty Journal, Summer 2015 issue.