{"id":3541,"date":"2023-01-24T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sprucehealth.com\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:00:47","slug":"primary-care-clinic-uses-spruce-to-schedule-appts-share-lab-results-provide-quality-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/primary-care-clinic-uses-spruce-to-schedule-appts-share-lab-results-provide-quality-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How Strada Healthcare Runs Patient Communication on Spruce"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Strada Healthcare was founded in Omaha in 2016 to build a better primary care model and has grown into one of the region&#8217;s largest direct primary care networks, with more than 50 providers across nine states. The network uses Spruce to schedule appointments, share lab results, and keep patient communication consistent at scale.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>A bit about the business&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"m-text-align-center text-align-left m-size-16 size-20\">Strada Healthcare was founded in Omaha, Nebraska in 2016. The mission was to create a better primary care model that saved patients money and was more efficient for physicians. Over the years, Strada has grown into one of the region\u2019s largest direct primary care networks with more than 50 providers across nine states. Strada\u2019s list of services has grown to now include onsite clinics, near-site clinics, virtual-only care, behavioral health, and more.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>How long have you been doing it?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>The practice has been around for nearly seven years. Our aim today is consistent with our founding: to bring innovative and advanced primary care solutions to the market, while lowering costs and improving outcomes.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"s1\"><b>What first brought you to Spruce?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>We needed a solution that could enable us to seamlessly connect with patients. We use Spruce in our clinic to communicate with our patients every day.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>How do you use Spruce at work?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>We use it to schedule appointments, share lab results, and provide medical care, among other things.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>What is your favorite Spruce feature?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>Internal messaging is a favorite. It makes it so easy to communicate with the care team and ensure we\u2019re all aligned.<\/p>\r\n<h3><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>What do you like to do most when you&#8217;re not working?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">When I\u2019m not working, I like to camp and garden.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>You can learn even more about Strada Healthcare on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stradahealthcare\">@stradahealthcare<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>New to Spruce? Try us out FREE for 14 days: https:\/\/l.sprucehealth.com\/startspruce\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"How Strada Healthcare Runs Patient Communication on Spruce - Spruce Blog","description":"Strada Healthcare, a 50+ provider direct primary care network across nine states, uses Spruce to schedule appointments and share lab results."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31],"tags":[],"different-template":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-improvement","category-practice-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"different-template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprucehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/different-template?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}