{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"Drs. Watts and Perry join Grace Community Health &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9GD20UAWo7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/drs-watts-perry-join-grace-community-health\/\">Drs. Watts and Perry join Grace Community Health<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/drs-watts-perry-join-grace-community-health\/embed\/#?secret=9GD20UAWo7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Drs. Watts and Perry join Grace Community Health&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"9GD20UAWo7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The practice of Dr. Michael Watts and Truman Perry is now officially part of Grace Community Health Center. The final portions of the deal were signed last Thursday. Michael Stanley, CEO of Grace Community Health Care, said the acquisition is a significant one for the group since Watts and Perry had quite a large practice \u2014 between 9,000 and 11,000 patients. \u201cThey have a rich history and a lot of patients. I think their patient population will be the ones who reap the benefits,\u201d Stanley said. \u201cWe expect improved outcomes for the patient through a big focus on quality measures.\u201d Perry said the move has been three years in the making, and was necessitated by the changing health care environment brought on by the Affordable Care Act, and the ability to now offer services that they could not give their patients before. \u201cThey will give us really good support. I think it\u2019s a good fit,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThere are so many compliance requirements and things you have to deal with now as far as being a solo practitioner \u2026 we really are all getting sort of squeezed out they because are so cumbersome that you can\u2019t really do it without the support of a larger group.\u201d Grace Community COO Jeff Campbell said one of the biggest of those requirements is migration to an electronic medical records system. The move is expensive and complicated. Many private practices often have difficulty discerning an appropriate system to adopt and lack the expertise to implement such a change. \u201cIt\u2019s a federal mandate, but it\u2019s a very good thing,\u201d Campbell said, noting that it cuts down on safety concerns, and also allows for doctors to have instant access to records regardless to which doctor a patient has seen in the Grace Community Healthcare system. \u201cWe are tied in across all of our organization,\u201d Campbell said. Grace Community runs it\u2019s own main clinic in Gray, and acquired Women\u2019s Health Associates in 2014. It also has numerous medical providers in Knox, Clay, Leslie and Bell counties, and provides school nursing services for Clay, Bell and Leslie County School Districts, and the Corbin Independent School District. Campbell said that the organization is also switching to a new system called \u201cEpic\u201d which will allow Grace to share records with the Baptist Health System. \u201cThe technology allows that transfer of information securely between the organizations so we can make qualified decisions about care.\u201d Stanley said that all of Watts and Perry\u2019s 29 employees are coming on board with Grace Community. Among those are three physicians and four non-physician providers. \u201cI just think it\u2019s a good fit all around because they specialize in rural areas \u2026 community medicine and family medicine, and they have a lot of outpatient clinics,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThe fact that they are faith-based doesn\u2019t hurt either.\u201d"}