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Lyle Bohlman, M.D. has joined Carena as the Regional Medical Director for the Kentucky/Indiana region.
Dr. Bohlman has had an extremely varied medical career as a rural physician in Oklahoma, Montana, and New Mexico before moving to Boston where he joined Health Stop as the owner-operator of an urgent care center. Following this, Dr. Bohlman helped develop a Family Practice residency program and served as the medical director of a hospital-owned group practice, which operated six locations in the Boston area.
In 1996, Dr. Bohlman joined the faculty of Tufts University Family Medicine Residency Program and served as the Associate Residency Director from 1999 to 2007.
After 30 years of practice and with an academic interest in improving access to affordable, cost-effective health care options, Dr. Bohlman became acquainted with the innovative services provided by Carena.
Carena’s service bridges the continuity gap that plagues the American health care system and adds to its extraordinary cost. It creates an opportunity for a physician to use all his or her listening and examination skills to provide urgent care in the patient’s home while working closely with their own primary care physician. It allows us to select cases in which we can prevent costly emergency room visits and their exhausting waits, which are often times as frightening as they are unnecessary. Carena’s model is a win-win-win for patients, doctors, and the system.
Dr. Bohlman is board certified in Family Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
He was named the 2006 Family Physician of the Year by the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, and received the Sidney Zietler Memorial Teaching Award in 1998 as the outstanding teacher at the Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Bohlman was also awarded an Outstanding Physician Award in 2000 by Harvard-Pilgrim Health Plan.
Dr. Bohlman has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Oklahoma City University, and received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals, an affiliate of Michigan State University. | 