HPSM’s Primary Care Investment Strategy

Our five-year, $60 million commitment to transforming primary care in San Mateo County

Primary care is a common good. Primary care is foundational to positive healthcare outcomes and  experience, and yet primary care practices nationwide are in crisis. The challenges of chronic underinvestment and workforce shortages and burnout were only exacerbated by the COVID-19 public health emergency.

To move our network from crisis to progress, HPSM has committed $60 million to a groundbreaking five-year Primary Care Investment Strategy. 

With input from our provider community and industry experts, we are working to design investments that target four specific goals:

1. Better allocate resources to address chronic underinvestment, support the implementation of advanced primary care and shift from a focus on volume to value. 
2. Promote a robust and thriving workforce by fortifying a diverse primary care workforce in San Mateo County to increase capacity, bandwidth and joy.
3. Improve population health by supporting our network to be more population-focused in order to achieve better, more equitable health outcomes for our members.
4. Enhance the care experience for members and families so that they are satisfied, engaged in their care and healthy.