Esse Health

Esse Health is a physician-owned, independent multi-specialty outpatient medical group based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1996, it provides primary and specialty care across more than 45 locations in the St. Louis metropolitan area and serves nearly 130,000 patients. With over 100 physicians and medical providers, the group is one of the largest independent primary care organisations in the Midwest.

Clinical services span family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and a range of specialties including gastroenterology, urology, orthopedics, allergy/immunology, child psychiatry and radiology. Preventive care and wellness programmes - covering education, lifestyle modification support and chronic disease management - run alongside these services.

The group's stated focus areas include healthcare technology and innovation, care coordination and team-based care delivery, chronic disease management and population health management. Employees work within a physician-led structure that places patients and their physicians at the centre of health decisions, with an emphasis on team-based care and trusting, longitudinal patient relationships.

Esse Health describes its operating aims as an enhanced patient experience, improved population health and cost-effectiveness. The organisation remains independent and physician-owned, and uses innovative technologies in its care delivery.