BMC Identifies Huge Community Healthcare Gap and Opens Doors to Medicare Patients

At a time when most providers in the tri-county area are not accepting Medicare patients, Bend Memorial Clinic is announcing acceptance of Medicare patients by primary care physicians who are accepting new patients. 

A problem across Oregon, many area primary care physicians must turn away new Medicare patients because reimbursement rates are too low to cover the cost of the medical care they provide. In Bend and surrounding areas, the Central Oregon Council on Aging has noted that residents searching for primary care physicians who accept Medicare is one of the largest problems in our community. 

Taking the lead on this critical issue, BMC will also offer Medicare patients access to to specialists who provide care at the clinic. 

To read our press release, click here.


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Bend Memorial Clinic supports, participates in, and is dedicated to many charitable and non-profit organizations the Central Oregon community. Through the years, we have engaged in a number of activities reflecting our commitment to the welfare of people in all stages and walks of life. In addition, many of our employees give generously of their time and dollars -- as volunteers, board members and donors. Take a look at some of the many ways we’re making a difference...

 

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Healthy Beginnings support

The Hospice Center Bend La Pine support

Arthritis Foundation support

COCC Foundation support

The Center Foundation board membership and support

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Bend Memorial Clinic Foundation

The Bend Memorial Clinic Foundation is a not for profit charitable organization created in 1999 by a separate group of physicians, staff and community leaders to establish a means for BMC to raise and distribute funds for the community benefit.

The mission statement for the BMC Foundation is:

To promote healthy communities of Central and Eastern Oregon through education and research that addresses the cause, treatment and prevention of disease and disability.

In late 2005 the partnership of BMC voted to make “cancer” the main focus of the Foundation activities.

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