2016
Aurelia opens on Brighton Way
Dr. Nadia Rahimi leaves a 2,200-patient panel and opens with 40 members, four consulting rooms and one phlebotomy chair.
One number changes everything else
A typical American primary care physician carries 2,000 to 2,500 patients. Ours carry 240. Aurelia exists to find out what medicine looks like on the other side of that arithmetic.
The practice in numbers
240
Patients per physician
Capped, against a US average near 2,300
45 min
Standard visit length
Annual visits run 60 minutes
96%
Same-day offers met
Members requesting acute care, 2025 sample
11 min
Median member line response
Physician on the line, not a service
Figures shown are sample data for this demonstration website and are not audited practice statistics.
Why the practice exists
Dr. Nadia Rahimi spent eleven years in a large Los Angeles internal medicine group. By the end she carried more than 2,200 patients and had twelve minutes per appointment. She has written since that the problem was never the clinicians inside that system; it was the arithmetic they were handed.
Twelve minutes is enough to address one complaint. It is not enough to reconcile nine medications from four prescribers, take a family history that goes past the word cancer, or ask a second question after the first answer sounds wrong. Those are the three places where primary care earns its keep.
Aurelia opened in 2016 with forty members and a cap. The cap is the whole design. Same-day access, 45-minute visits and a physician who answers the phone at 2 am are not features bolted onto a practice; they are what becomes possible when one physician looks after 240 people instead of 2,200.
The trade-off is honest and worth stating: this model works because members pay a fee outside insurance, and that is not available to everyone. We do not claim it is a solution to primary care in the United States. It is a solution for the people who join.
What we hold to
The panel is the product
Two hundred and forty patients per physician (sample). Every other promise on this site is downstream of that one number, and we will not quietly raise it.
Time is clinical, not hospitality
A 45-minute visit is not a luxury. It is how a medication list gets reconciled, how a family history gets taken properly, and how a diagnosis stops being a guess.
One record, reconciled
We request everything, read it, and resolve the contradictions. Most new members arrive with four records that disagree about their medication.
We say what we do not do
We are primary care. We do not perform surgery, we are not an emergency department, and membership is not insurance. Saying so clearly is part of the service.
Prevention with a number attached
An ApoB target, a screening interval, a date. Advice without a measurable target is a conversation, not a plan.
Access answered by a physician
The 24/7 line reaches a doctor from this practice who can see your chart. Not a triage script, not a stranger.
Ten years, in order
Sample practice history for this demonstration website.
2018
On-site laboratory
Same-day chemistry, CBC and HbA1c on site, which removes about a week from most diagnostic sequences.
2019
Preventive cardiology begins
Dr. Elliot Vance joins and ApoB and lipoprotein(a) become part of the standard baseline panel.
2021
Sunset Plaza opens
A second clinic built around women's health and sleep medicine, with longer appointment blocks by design.
2023
Executive physical suite
The one-day physical moves into its own suite so the whole sequence can run without leaving the building.
2026
Six clinicians, three locations
Panels capped, a waiting list when they are full, and the Palisades consulting rooms open three days a week.
Six clinicians, one shared record
Dr. Nadia Rahimi
MD, FACP. Founding physician, internal medicine
Complex primary care, metabolic health, care coordination
Dr. Elliot Vance
MD, FACC. Preventive cardiology
Lipidology, coronary calcium scoring, hypertension phenotyping
Dr. Priya Raghunathan
DO, FACOG. Women's health and primary care
Perimenopause, contraception, bone health, preconception care
Dr. Marcus Oyelaran
MD. Sleep medicine and pulmonary
Obstructive sleep apnoea, chronic insomnia, asthma and COPD
Sofia Bergström
MS, RDN, CSSD. Registered dietitian nutritionist
Cardiometabolic nutrition, body composition, sports nutrition
Grace Tanaka
MSN, FNP-BC. Family nurse practitioner
Same-day acute care, immunisations, travel medicine, procedures
Provider names, training institutions, board certifications and licensure on this demonstration website are illustrative samples and do not describe real clinicians.
The clinics themselves
Designed so nobody sits in a corridor, nobody overhears a consultation, and nothing is for sale in the building.
No waiting room
You are taken straight to a consulting room. The lounge exists for the people bringing you, not for queueing.
On-site laboratory
Phlebotomy and same-day chemistry at Brighton Way, so most panels are back before you have finished lunch.
Quiet by design
Acoustic separation between every room. Nobody overhears your consultation, and you do not overhear anyone else's.
Step-free throughout
Level access at both main clinics, lift access to every floor, and accessible examination tables.
Valet and validation
Valet at Brighton Way, validated underground parking at Sunset Plaza, free surface parking at the Palisades rooms.
Refreshment, not vending
Filtered water, herbal tea and fruit. Nothing is for sale anywhere in the building.
Come and see the place
A twenty-minute discovery call, then a tour of whichever clinic is closest to you. 3 locations across the Westside.