![]() We’re adding pediatrics shortly, we’re adding mental health to our platform, we’re going to have women’s health. What we’re doing is not just about our urgent care or our primary care service, but the fact that we’re really looking to build an ecosystem that’s already expanding. It’s not that’s any shortage of what you’d call access points here it’s a dense marketplace with people, and there are lots of hospitals around, there's a lot of clinics, but there are very few that can deliver the type of service and convenience that we’re aiming to give. SM: I'm from Southern California, I’m based there, so I know the market pretty well. VN: Why is Southern California a fruitful area for Carbon to expand to? What opportunities do you see in that section of the country? So, this is our chance to show that we can do this in a market where we didn't have a presence before and we can bring the best practice we think we’ve developed and we can leverage the technology we know we’ve developed, and use it to deliver the same type of consistency in a whole new market. We’ve done that really well in Northern California, we’ve been doing it in Nevada, now we’re branching out into a whole new market where we haven't had that same footing. You’re starting out sick, or at least not feeling well, or something’s not going well in your day, and you don’t have to rub salt in the wound by making the whole care experience difficult to navigate or to get through. The experience you have when you go to the doctor shouldn’t be what most of us get. Now I’m going to get to the Pasadena clinic: what’s significant about the Pasadena clinic is that what we’ve been able to do, reliably and consistently, is deliver that type of care that we think should be the standard, both from an accessibility standpoint, meaning convenience, and also quality-wise, and service-level. Our mission is to increase access to care. So, what’s been really refreshing is that Carbon is truly built from the ground up, not only around the patient, but also with the provider in mind. A lot of that has to do with the constraints of how hospital-based care, or traditional healthcare delivery systems, are built they were never really built around the patient, they were built more around themselves, or sometimes around the doctor, and the patient ended up having to navigate through that, whether physically or more philosophically, and advocate for their own care. I worked with probably about 120 hospitals and about 2,000 providers, so I got to see a lot of different ways healthcare was being delivered, but I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t necessarily see the way I thought it should be delivered. I come from an organization that was in the hospital-based world of healthcare delivery, and what really drew me towards Carbon was having a really broad perspective on healthcare delivery. I’m an emergency physician, and I’m still in practice a little bit, but most of what I’ve been doing, probably for the last like 12 to 15 years, is healthcare administration. Sujal Mandavia: If you don’t mind, I want to tell you just a little bit about my background because I think it might give you context on why I’m here at Carbon, and what pulled me here. What’s unique about it compared to your other clinics?ĭr. VatorNews: Tell me about the new Pasadena clinic. ![]() Sujal Mandavia, Chief Medical Officer at Carbon Health, spoke to VatorNews about the new clinic, where the company wants to expand to next and how those new areas of focus will benefit Carbon's patients. The company just launched its second SoCal location, and has plans to expand into specialty areasĮarlier this week, Carbon Health revealed that it had opened its second clinic in Southern California, located in Pasadena, marking the company's 14th location overall.Ĭarbon Health is a company that combines virtual and in-person care, offering patients an app through which they can manage appointments, billing, pharmacy refills and lab results from their phone, while also providing them with access to primary and urgent care clinics, which don't require a membership or fees from the patient.Īlong with the new clinic, Carbon Health also made some announcements regarding it's upcoming plans, including wanting to have 100 clinics across the country by next year, while also launching specialty offerings in pediatrics, mental health, and women’s health services.ĭr.
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