Mike Eskew, APRN

"Michael Eskew was born in Oklahoma City before moving to Texas at a young age. His family lived in Austin and Amarillo, and Mike graduated from Canyon High School before returning to Oklahoma for college. He graduated from Southern Nazarene University, began his career as a science teacher and girls basketball coach, and has lived on the northwest side of Oklahoma City for the past thirty years. He earned a second undergraduate degree, in nursing, from the University of Oklahoma and worked as an ICU nurse at OU Medical Center. Mike’s dream has been to combine his love of science with his passion for helping others, and a career in healthcare has been the perfect blend of both. He attended Duke University in North Carolina, where he earned both a Master’s and a Doctorate as a nurse practitioner. Mike feels extremely blessed to be joining Primary Health Partners as a nurse practitioner at their northwest location. He believes that PHP is bringing much needed change to the healthcare industry in Oklahoma. “Primary Health Partners eliminates the barriers between the provider and the patient. PHP provides prompt access to providers, and the focus is on the patient. The focus is not on the clock, the revenue generated, the referrals created, or the demands of the insurance company. The focus is back where it belongs, on the patient, and how to provide the best care possible to the person in front of you at that moment.” Mike is married to Chris, who is an elementary librarian, and they have two mostly wonderful children. Carson is in college at Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho, Reagan attends Yukon Public Schools, and don’t forget Maggie, their Labrador retriever. Mike enjoys woodworking in his spare time, and the family enjoys many outdoor activities including hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, and riding four wheelers."

"Our Mission is to return to the essence of healthcare Creating a Transcendent doctor-patient relationship. Recently, a study showed the burn out rates among primary care physicians to be in the top five of all specialties. Unfortunately in our current health care environment that is not going to change any time soon. Reimbursements are falling and physicians are being driven to see more and more patients and spend less time with them. Physicians desire to build relationships with their patients, but after a busy day of practice there is no compensation to further connect with patients much less the energy to do so. In a nutshell health care in the primary care setting is broken. DPC involves patients paying a monthly subscription fee to the practice. In return they get to be a part of a smaller patient panel and thus have more access to the physician. They usually can text, email or call the practice 24/7 and rarely have to wait for an appointment. They also get longer visits and generally have a very high satisfaction with the arrangement. We believe that over time, third parties, because of investor and market pressures, have compromised the quality of the patient experience. When you remove those third parties (insurance companies), no longer do we have to serve their demands, but can focus only on the patient concerns. Those third party relationships increase cost and decrease physician-patient time. PHP believes without those third parties, the doctor-patient relationship can thrive. The result is increased patient satisfaction, cost savings and improved clinical outcomes."