Steven Y. Chen, MD
Family Medicine
Empowering Providers to Improve Care
VIPN was established to help local physicians unite in a proactive, common sense approach to healthcare reform.
The Tools to Help You Succeed
VIPN is a physician-led, physician-governed Clinically Integrated Network that empowers providers to improve care, manage costs and offer a better patient experience. We foster independence and autonomy for each physician while enabling greater collaboration and improved quality through shared resources, advanced technology and clinical best practices that align with emerging models of care delivery.
Physician Spotlight
When people ask me why I chose primary care as my field of medicine, I often ask them what they think a primary care physician should be. Most people answer, “I don’t know, someone to take care of me when I’m sick.” Although that is true in most of my daily encounters, that is not how I define primary care. Primary care equals primary prevention, which is the foundation of everyone’s health. We are so busy earning a living and taking care of our obligations that most of us have cast our health aside because we “feel fine”. In the hustle and bustle of life as we live now, preventive medicine has been pushed aside and reactive medicine has taken over. This has to change in order for every one of us to become healthier.
Advance Directive Planning and Providers
You play a key role in facilitating informed end-of-life decisions by your patients. Your expertise is an invaluable resource for patients as they plan for the unexpected.
The Advantage of Care Coordination
Your practice is already trying to do more with less today. Care coordination offers patients with chronic conditions and other serious medical risks the intensive, ongoing support needed to improve their health.
Transitional Care Management
Transitional Care Management (TCM) services address the hand-off period between the inpatient and community setting.