My vision for DPC: growth without sacrificing quality and community

DPC thrives at the local level. We all want to grow DPC so more clinicians and more patients can benefit. The risk with growing DPC, as I saw when I consulted private equity firms, is scaling too quickly and with the wrong partner can lead to reduced quality of care. The investment firm or chain operates top-down and the practice loses its culture and connection to the community it serves. That is why I designed Timshel Health to respect the autonomy and uniqueness of DPC practices.

We are a partner-based holding company, not a private equity firm and not a national chain. We don’t want to roll up DPC practices and we don’t want to create a national chain. We want to support multiple community-based practices that are led by their founding team with know-how and capital.

Our partners are highly motivated to grow their practice and grow DPC at large; they are great entrepreneurs who don’t need us to run their practice today but want a growth partner to make their practice - and the DPC movement as a whole - bigger and better.