Our mission
To make whole-person healthcare ordinary — coordinated, affordable, and unhurried — so that getting good care does not require luck, time off work, or a medical degree to navigate.
🌿 Our story, our standards, our people
We built the clinic we kept wishing existed.
Everwell started with two clinicians who were tired of 12-minute appointments, fax machines, and patients carrying their own medical history around in a plastic bag. Ten years later, we are a team of 62 people caring for more than 24,000 patients across Texas, Colorado, and 38 telehealth states — still convinced that good care begins with listening.
Founded in 2016 in Austin, TX
24,000+ patients cared for
62 clinicians & staff
4.9/5 average rating
📖 How we got here
A waiting room confession that turned into a company
In 2015, Dr. Maya Alvarado was working in a busy Austin primary care group where she was expected to see 26 patients a day. One afternoon, a patient named Mr. H. handed her a grocery bag of pill bottles and said, “I have seen five doctors this year and none of them know about each other.”
That sentence became the founding brief. Together with family nurse practitioner Renée Okafor — who had spent a decade in urgent care watching preventable problems come back again and again — Maya opened Everwell in a converted bungalow on Live Oak Boulevard in 2016. Four clinicians, two exam rooms, and one rule: 30 minutes minimum, every visit, every patient.
We have grown carefully since then. Every service line we added — skin care, hair care, oral care, weight management, wellness — was added because patients kept asking for a place where these things could be handled by people who already knew their history. That is still the test we apply before opening anything new.
2016
Year opened in Austin
30 min
Minimum visit length
62
Clinicians & staff
2
Clinics, plus telehealth
“The grocery bag of pill bottles is still on the wall of our first exam room.
It reminds us why the shared chart exists.”
— Dr. Maya Alvarado, Co-founder
📍 Austin, TX
📍 Denver, CO
💻 38 states
🎯 What we are here to do
Mission, vision, and the promise we make to every patient
Our vision
A country where a person's skin, teeth, weight, mental health, and blood pressure are treated by one connected team instead of six strangers with six separate charts.
Our promise
You will know what a visit costs before you book. You will understand your plan before you leave. And you will always be able to reach a human who has read your chart.
💚 Six values we actually hire against
The things we will not compromise, even when it costs us money
Values are easy to print on a wall. These ones are built into how we schedule, how we pay clinicians, and how we decide what to offer.
Listen first, chart second
Visits start with your words, not a checklist. Clinicians document after the conversation, not during it, so you get eye contact instead of a keyboard.
No surprise bills. Ever.
Published self-pay prices, written estimates before care, and a billing team that answers the phone. If a cost is unclear, that is our problem to fix — not yours.
Evidence over trends
We prescribe what the research supports, at the lowest effective dose. No IV vitamin drips, no “adrenal fatigue” panels, no supplements we would not take ourselves.
The whole person
Your weight, sleep, stress, and skin are connected. So are your culture, budget, and work schedule. Good plans account for all of it or they do not work.
Access is part of care
Evening hours, telehealth, interpreters, sliding-scale slots, and plain-language instructions. A treatment you cannot access is not a treatment.
Privacy, without drama
Your data is used to treat you, not sold. We do not run third-party ad tracking on patient-facing pages, and you can request your full record at any time.
🕰️ Ten years, carefully
A timeline of choices, not just growth
We have turned down franchise offers, private-equity roll-ups, and at least three “quick weight loss” product deals. Here is what we said yes to instead.
Everwell is clinician-owned. Our medical director reports to a clinical board, not to a sales target.
2016
Doors open in Austin
Four clinicians, two exam rooms, and a 30-minute visit standard that skeptics said would never pencil out.
2018
Denver clinic & first telehealth pilot
A second location in the Highland neighborhood, plus a small video program for follow-ups and prescription checks.
2020
Stay-home care goes permanent
Telehealth expands from a pilot to a core service. Our nurse line becomes 24/7 after patients ask for someone to call at 2am.
2021
Weight management, dietitian-led
We launch a 12-week program built around labs and behavior change — with medication as an option, not the whole plan.
2022
Skin, hair & oral care added
Dermatology and dental suites open so patients can handle acne, hair loss, and cleanings without a separate referral maze.
2024
Joint Commission accreditation
Independent surveyors review our safety, infection control, and medication protocols. We pass, then keep improving anyway.
2026
24,000 patients and counting
62 team members, two clinics, telehealth in 38 states, and the same founding rule about 30-minute visits.
👩⚕️ Your care team
Clinicians who chose this model on purpose
Every clinician at Everwell is salaried. Nobody here is paid per test, per procedure, or per product sold — which changes what a recommendation sounds like.
Dr. Maya Alvarado, MD
Co-founder & Medical Director · Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern graduate, 14 years in primary care. Leads our diabetes prevention work and still sees patients four days a week.
Primary CareRenée Okafor, FNP-C
Co-founder & Director of Clinical Experience
Family nurse practitioner with a decade of urgent care and community health experience. Designed our triage and call-back system.
Primary CareDr. Daniel Kim, MD
Dermatology Lead · Denver
Board-certified dermatologist and clinical instructor. Special interest in acne, eczema, hair loss, and skin cancer screening.
Skin & Hair CareDr. Aaron Patel, DDS
Dental Director · Austin
General dentist focused on preventive hygiene and the oral-systemic link. Trained in dental sleep medicine for apnea screening.
Oral CareSofia Bennett, RD, CDCES
Clinical Nutrition & Weight Program Lead
Registered dietitian and diabetes care specialist. Builds plans around real budgets, shift work, and family dinners.
Weight & WellnessGrace Hwang, LCSW
Behavioral Health & Wellness Counselor
Licensed clinical social worker supporting stress, anxiety, burnout, and the emotional side of chronic conditions.
Wellness CareOur clinical standards
- Board-certified physicians and licensed NPs, PAs, RDNs, and DDS providers
- Monthly peer review of charts and prescribing patterns
- CLIA-certified lab partners with results in your portal within 48–72 hours
- Written prescribing policy for weight management medication
- Interpreter services in 14 languages at no cost
- Same-day call-back for urgent messages during clinic hours
- Annual infection control and medication safety audits
Accredited by The Joint Commission. Our safety and medication protocols are reviewed by an independent clinical board every quarter.
🛡️ Safety & clinical standards
What “clinician-owned” looks like in practice
Everwell does not operate a prescription mill. Weight management medication is prescribed only after a full metabolic workup, a review of your history, and a conversation about side effects, cost, and what happens if you stop. Ongoing monitoring is included, because starting a medication is the easy part.
Skin and hair treatments follow the same rule. We start with the lowest effective intervention, document why we chose it, and schedule a check-in to see whether it worked. If it did not, we change course rather than add another product.
We do: spend the first visit on history and goals, even when a prescription seems obvious.
We do: tell you when a treatment is not worth the cost, and what to try instead.
We do: coordinate with your outside specialists, with your written permission.
We do not: sell supplements, run commission-based programs, or upsell cosmetic packages during a medical visit.
🤲 Community & access
Care that stays in the neighborhood
About 8% of our clinical hours are reserved for patients who could not otherwise afford care. That is a business decision we make on purpose, every budget cycle.
Sliding-scale slots
Households under 200% of the federal poverty line can apply for reduced visit fees. Applications are reviewed in 48 hours and never affect the quality of care you receive.
Free community screenings
Every month we run blood pressure, glucose, and skin-check clinics at libraries, churches, and community centers in Austin and Denver. No insurance, no appointment needed.
Employer partnerships
We provide on-site flu clinics, wellness programming, and priority scheduling for 40+ small and mid-sized employers — priced so that small businesses can actually participate.
💼 Work with us
Hiring clinicians who want time with patients
We are growing our primary care and dermatology teams in both cities. Salaried positions, 30-minute visits, four-day clinical weeks, and a real say in how the clinic runs.
- No productivity quotas or RVU targets
- Benefits start on day one, including mental health visits
- Loan repayment support for primary care clinicians