Open Letter to our Community of Healthcare Practitioners, Partners, and Friends.
This is an important and exciting time for what we have built at Lina and the potential for what we are yet to accomplish together.
I am thrilled to assume my role as the new CEO at Lina to lead our team as we continue to expand our reach in supporting healthcare providers in private practice. With hundreds of healthcare practitioners operating their solo, small group or startup practices and many joining us as we speak, we are just getting started!
I want to thank Vicrum Puri for his vision and leadership as Lina’s CEO for the past 5 years. Vicrum is stepping down from his role but will remain on our board and actively involved as we continue to take Lina to the next phase of growth and expansion across the country.
On June 28, 2021, the Physicians Advocacy Institute (a non-profit advocacy organization that supports physician practices) sent an open letter to the members of the US Congress advocating that physicians should retain their clinical autonomy to provide high-quality, cost-effective care for their patients…if left unchecked, this trend may result in an inappropriate incursion into the practice of medicine.” The P.A.I. called this shift towards consolidation of healthcare an “alarming trend”. What this letter is referring to is a decades-long practice — accelerated by the pandemic — where large hospital systems and other entities are buying up physician practices.
The pandemic exacerbated many stressors physicians were already facing. Loss of autonomy and work-life balance, overwhelming administrative and regulatory burdens, decreasing reimbursements and escalating overhead costs are some of the contributing factors leading to physician burnout and early retirement. A 2021 study found 56% of independent physicians reported frequent burnout, a study the following year found 49% of doctors, in general, experienced burnout and a 2023 report determined that 1 in 4 doctors are depressed (the highest in five years).
Quality of care improves, cost of care goes down and healthcare providers stay in private practice longer when they are supported with the right tools to practice on their terms.
Providers in private practice have greater autonomy to use their skills and judgment to decide the best course of treatment for their patients. They have a say in the number of patients they can realistically see per hour to be able to provide meaningful, quality care. They report better control of their work-life balance and an overall increase in job satisfaction.
Lina Today
With our New York City locations operating at capacity and our South Florida space quickly filling up with medical, mental health, and wellness specialists, we remain one of the few companies to offer a more affordable, sustainable and common-sense way for providers to care for their patients, retain their autonomy and hold on to their independent practices without succumbing to the pressures of having to be bought out.
Since its inception, Lina has helped alleviate burdens associated with launching, growing and operating a private practice. Our innovative model eliminates steep overhead costs and minimizes time and energy spent managing an office and headaches unrelated to patient care. Primary care, pediatrics, podiatry, women’s health, dermatology, and mental health are just some of the specialties who call Lina home.
Private practice can be isolating. Lina offers providers the chance to practice independently alongside each other, create meaningful connections and benefit from the built-in opportunities to grow their practice through networking and patient referrals where they make sense. Our community is truly unique and as our network of providers grows, so will Lina’s ability to offer even more, far reaching support.
Lina Tomorrow
We believe Lina’s model is an integral part of the future as the strain on our healthcare providers is not sustainable long term. Lina can help offset the burdens providers face that ultimately force them to leave their profession.
Our vision is to continue leading Lina towards national expansion and establish our templatized model as the gold standard for flexible office space built exclusively to support healthcare providers in private practice.
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From small suburban neighborhoods to large metropolitan cities, Lina can support providers across multiple specialties and throughout the lifespan of their professional careers. As the number of independent healthcare practices grows so does access to quality patient care in local communities.
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To Practitioners
We understand your needs and your pain points. We also understand how to deliver the much-needed solutions to support you and allow you to focus on what is most important: your own well-being and your ability to deliver high-quality care to your patients.
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to the healthcare providers in South Florida, who have recently joined Lina Aventura — our newest location to open outside of NYC. I would also like to express my gratitude to the entire Lina community of providers, across all locations — many of whom have been practicing at Lina for years — for trusting us to support your practice needs and for the invaluable work that you do every day in taking care of the rest of us.
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On a Personal Note
Lina was named after my grandmother Polina. My grandmother was a force of nature who overcame many challenges in her life, including surviving World War II as a child, losing her father at an early age and being raised by a single mother.
Living as a young woman in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s she experienced discrimination and was accepted into medical school only after storming the director’s office and demanding equal treatment as a woman. She was fearless and there was nothing she couldn’t do — including becoming a well-respected family doctor in her community at a time when that achievement alone was nothing short of a miracle. Naming Lina in her honor was fitting and my hope and vision is to lead this company forward with the same spirit and determination as the way she led and lived her life.
A company is only as good as its team and I am grateful for our dedicated team here at Lina who work hard every day to support our providers. I am proud of what we have accomplished so far, but am most excited and energized about what we are yet to achieve, together.
Warmest regards,
Co-Founder & CEO at Lina