Empowering
Clinic Owners
We empower clinic owners with cost-saving initiatives, lease negotiations, and advocacy for better business models. Our efforts reduce expenses, support physician recruitment, and combat monopolistic practices, all while enhancing productivity and value. Affordable membership ensures access to resources that build a stronger, more sustainable future for primary care.
✽ What We Offer
Discover our
main three benefits
Cost Savings and Financial Support
Through group purchasing power, favorable lease negotiations, and preferential banking arrangements, members significantly reduce operational costs.
Advocacy and Physician Recruitment
Collaborative efforts with the government address recruitment challenges, retention strategies, and the improvement of business models for clinics.
Enhanced Productivity and Unified Support
By reducing administrative burdens, mentoring clinic owners, and implementing innovative technologies, members gain tools and guidance to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
Your Member Benefits
We are pleased to share the numerous advantages of your membership with the APCCOA.
Benefits of membership include:
-Business Support and Negotiations:
Negotiations with a national leasing agent Cushman & Wakefield to secure favorable lease terms for all members and to negotiate favorable lease renewals.
-Group purchasing power for medical equipment and supplies, sourced directly from manufacturers.
-Preferential banking arrangements with ATB, our preferred association bank.
-Physician Recruitment and Retention:
Advocacy efforts aimed at recruiting and retaining physicians in clinics.
-Collaborative initiatives with the government to address the challenges faced by the broken business model and enhance recruitment, retention, and a return to longitudinal care.
-Empowering Clinics and Reducing Costs:
Group purchasing power for equipment and supplies. Working with
Cushman & Wakefield to negotiate or renegotiate leases.
Potential for standardization of business arrangements to eliminate
competition.
Challenging Monopolistic Practices:
-Mentorship for new clinic owners to establish and adhere to best business practices.
-Strategic partnerships with equipment suppliers to secure direct
manufacturer deals for cost reductions.
-Standardization of business arrangements to eliminate harmful competition among clinics and prevent non-viable agreements.
challenging monopolistic practices of electronic medical record companies who have raised EMR costs to unrealistic levels.
-Increasing Productivity and Value:
Efforts to reduce the administrative burden, thereby enhancing productivity.
-Investments in infrastructure designed to yield substantial returns on investment for our members.
-Preserving Membership Accessibility:
We are committed to maintaining membership fees at an affordable level. At just $300 per year (or $25 per month), your membership provides comprehensive benefits.
These contributions enable us to maintain our progress
and deliver enhanced benefits. Please remit your membership fees on the Member Dues Page
-Technological Advancements:
We will implement novel technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), to enhance physician productivity.
We will explore new technologies that can streamline clinic operations.
-Collaborative Initiatives:
We will convene regularly to exchange ideas and foster networking with other clinics. By collaborating with the Ministry of Health, we aim to address the challenges faced by clinic operators and advocate for a more effective business model.
-Strength in Unity:
Our collective strength lies in our expanding membership. Together, we can save primary care infrastructure.