Orchard Health Care is the membership practice for primary care medicine founded in 2006 by Steven R. Kanner, MD, a highly credentialed and experienced internist, to provide comprehensive, scientifically up-to-the-minute and personalized medical care.
Dr. Kanner [see bio] is a graduate and long-term faculty member of Harvard Medical School and several of its major teaching hospitals.
Dr. Kanner’s goal is to keep his patients healthy. His clinical approach [more] is proactive and focuses on health maintenance and careful control of unavoidable medical illnesses using evidence-based best practices. Office appointments are 30 to 90 minutes, longer whenever needed. Members who are infirm can be seen at home. [see Member Benefits]
Each member receives regular, individualized guidance on preventive care and life-style improvement. They may also attend the practice’s small group seminars to help them deal successfully with such difficult behavioral issues as proper nutrition and weight management. Additionally, members have access to the Orchard Health Care blogs where Dr. Kanner’s commentaries explain, simplify and put in context current medical issues and developments reported in the professional and lay press.
Orchard Health Care patients may easily communicate with Dr. Kanner by phone and e-mail in addition to in-person visits. The experienced office staff [more] work to simplify the logistics of referrals and tests required by the patient.
When acute or serious illness arises, the member is usually seen the same day. Dr. Kanner personally treats the patient or arranges and supervises help from top-flight specialist colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center or other Harvard teaching hospitals [see Affiliations]. He carefully discusses the patient’s problems with the involved consultants as well as with the patient.
Dr. Kanner affiliates with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and accepts essentially the same health insurance plans as BIDMC [see Health Insurance] for clinical care.
To enable this level of individualized attention and related benefits, Orchard Health Care limits patients to approximately 400 adults and their children 16 and older.
Membership in Orchard Health Care requires payment of an annual fee [more], separate from normal office medical care insurance charges. Membership fees paid by the member to Orchard Health Care, LLC are solely for the member benefits [more] that are provided, or arranged to be provided, by Orchard Health Care. The membership fee does not cover or pay for any of the clinical care provided by Dr. Kanner or his practice, Steven R. Kanner, MD, LLC, or any items or services covered by the member’s health plan.
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Join Orchard Health Care and have access to this member-driven section where Dr. Kanner discusses medical questions of general interest submitted to him by members.
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Dr. Kanner’s blog provides Orchard Health Care members regular analytical commentary on current medical and biological issues and events
Members may access a wide variety of Dr. Kanner’s writings targeted to patients on issues of health care and self-help, such as: