Oconee Valley Healthcare

Oconee Valley Healthcare is a private non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), that provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary, team-based, cost-effective, and accessible primary and other healthcare services in response to the needs of communities with eight clinical sites in the counties of Green (Greensboro, including Lake Oconee), Putnam (Eatonton), and Baldwin (Milledgeville).

Their interdisciplinary team of providers includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists, delivering services in family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, women’s health/prenatal care, and podiatry. Translation services are available to enhance patient access and care. This FQHC provides radiology at three sites, laboratory service at all sites, Telemedicine service, and minor surgical procedures including colonoscopy, vasectomy, skin procedures, and joint and trigger point injections.

Oconee Valley Healthcare 20th Anniversary

The FQHC’s physicians also provide hospital services at St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital, a critical access hospital, and long-term care services in multiple nursing homes in the area.

Oconee Valley Healthcare also operates an urgent care center, works with local hospice and home healthcare agencies, and provides directorship to an alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility, all in response to changing community needs.

Oconee Valley Healthcare also is recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Level III Patient-Centered Medical Home. The NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home status indicates promotion of quality care standards using systematic, patient-centered, coordinated, team-based care supported by quality assessment and improvement programs. Active patient involvement ensures access, safety, and better health to all members of the communities served.

Unique Educational Experiences

Oconee Valley Healthcare has a history of resident educational engagement for inpatient clinical learning experience and recent Medical College of Georgia (MCG) student and resident education support and involvement. Its multiple clinical platforms and diverse community clinical engagements provide learning opportunities for a variety of required and elective learning experiences for students as an MCG FQHC Educational Affiliate. These learning opportunities are supervised by members of the FQHC’s physician staff who hold MCG Community Clinical Faculty appointments and facilitated by others in their interprofessional team of clinical providers.