UFM statistics

Commitment-to-serve statistics

• United Family Medicine, with its two sites, serves close to 14,000 people from the West 7^th community and surrounding neighborhoods.
• In 2006, approximately 13,000 people were active patients of United Family Medicine, contributing to a total of 45,000 visits to the clinic that year.
• In 2008, we cared for 11,838 patients, and 3,050 of them were new patients.
• In 2008, we welcomed a total of 43,316 patient visits to the clinic.

Clinic patient statistics

“The physicians and others are great-kind, knowledgeable, open and accepting of differences.”

• The majority of visitors to the clinic are adults between the ages of 20 and 64.
• Approximately 21% of our patients are children ranging from infants to 19-year-olds.
• Approximately 13% of our patients are 65 years old and over.
• Our patients are racially diverse: In 2008, 3.4% were Asian, 20% were African born or African American, 55% were Caucasian and 10% were Hispanic/Latino.
• Medicaid reimburses 31% of all clinic patients, while approximately 14% percent are part of our sliding fee program and self-pay, and Medicare reimburses approximately 13%.
• Forty-one percent of our patients are covered by private insurance plans and chose our clinic because of the high quality of care they receive here.
• Thirty-seven percent of the people who use our services live well below the poverty level (below 200% of the federal poverty level). The median per capita income of those we serve ($15,995) is 30% lower than that of the rest of the country ($23,536).
• The unemployment rate in the neighborhoods in which most of our patients live is almost double that of the unemployment rate of all of Ramsey County. Specifically, the West 7^th Street neighborhood unemployment rate is 8%, while that of all of Ramsey County is 4.3 percent.
• Refugees and immigrants who have resettled in our community make up 20% of the people we serve.
• Sixteen percent of our patients say they speak English “less than very well.”
• Over 25% of the people we serve do not have high school educations.
• Our patients and our staff members collectively speak more than 10 languages.