About Medice
Four clinics, 120 clinicians and one record, built by people who thought medicine had got too big to remember your name.
Our story
Cura te ipsum
Physician, heal thyself. Sarah Lindqvist kept the phrase pinned above her desk through eleven years at a hospital where she saw forty patients a day and could not have named a single one of them by Friday.
She opened the first Medice clinic on NW Lovejoy in 1998 with two exam rooms, one nurse and a rule she has never broken: no clinician carries more patients than they can hold in their head.
Twenty-seven years later that rule is why four clinics share one record instead of four, why the average visit runs nineteen minutes, and why the average wait runs eleven.
Dr. Sarah Lindqvist
What we are for
Mission, vision, and four we will not trade
Written down in 1998, edited twice since, and quoted back to us by patients more often than we expected.
Mission
Care that remembers you
Every Medice clinician carries a panel small enough to know by name. That is the whole strategy. Everything else — the record, the four buildings, the software — is logistics in service of it.
Vision
One record for every Portlander
By 2030 any Portland resident should walk into any clinic in this city and find their full history already on the screen. We started with ours. The next part is harder.
Values
Four we will not trade
- Honest prices, quoted before the visit
- Notes written for the patient, not the payer
- Same-day access, not a waiting list
- The doctor reads their own scans
Since 1998
Twenty-seven years, four buildings
Two exam rooms became eighteen specialties. The order it happened in explains most of how the practice works today.
Two exam rooms on NW Lovejoy
Sarah Lindqvist opens the first clinic with one nurse and 212 registered patients. Joint Commission accreditation follows the same year.
Beaverton opens
The second clinic takes the practice past four thousand patients — and forces the first hard question: how do two buildings share one chart?
One record, four ways in
A single shared record replaces four separate systems. A cardiologist can finally read what the GP wrote that morning, without asking for it.
Lloyd Center, and the lights stay on
The third clinic opens with Portland's first 24-hour independent urgent care. It has not closed since — not once, not for a holiday.
The portal, and prices in public
Notes, labs and prescriptions reach patients the same day. Self-pay prices are published for every common visit, and stop moving.
Sellwood, and 120 clinicians
The fourth clinic completes the map. Eighteen specialties, 120 clinicians, and an eleven-minute average wait across all four.
Leadership
The four who set the rules
Dr. Sarah Lindqvist
Founder · Chief Medical Officer
Family medicine. Opened the Lovejoy clinic in 1998 and still keeps a Thursday panel.
Dr. Amara Osei
Medical Director, Primary Care
Internal medicine. Wrote the panel-size rule the other three clinics now run on.
Dr. Ben Whitfield
Chief of Cardiology
Runs the in-house echo lab and reads every study himself, usually the same day.
Dr. Priya Raman
Director of Pediatric Services
Pediatrics. Built the Beaverton evening clinic so parents stop missing work for it.
- 27 years
- Serving Portland since 1998
- 120
- Clinicians across four clinics
- 18
- Specialties under one record
- 4
- Neighbourhood clinics
Inside the clinics
Four buildings, one standard
Ordinary weekday light, ordinary weekday rooms. Four buildings finished to the same specification, down to the chairs.
Accreditation
Checked by people who are not us
Four independent bodies inspect this practice on their own schedule. Every certificate below is current and every survey date is real.
The Joint Commission
Accredited without interruption since 1998. Last full survey March 2025, no conditional findings.
NCQA Medical Home
Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition at all four clinics, renewed 2024.
CAP-accredited lab
College of American Pathologists. On-site at Pearl District and Lloyd Center, results in under 24 hours.
ACR-accredited imaging
American College of Radiology. MRI, CT and ultrasound at Beaverton and Lloyd Center, read in-house.
Careers
We are hiring fourteen clinicians
Panels capped at 900. Nineteen-minute visits. Admin handled by people whose job that is. Nine of the fourteen roles are at Sellwood.
Ready when you are
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