Dr. Portier, the staff, and the Board of Directors of the Emmitsburg Osteopathic Primary Care Center would like to welcome you to our practice. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive medical program for our patients, emphasizing preventative and didactic medicine as well as osteopathic manipulation.  

    The program is patient centered, requiring the active involvement of the patient in his or her health care. Our goals, beyond providing medical care consistent with standard of care guidelines, are:

* to develop a patient knowledge base that helps the patient to understand both wellness and disease;

* to actively involve the patient directly in the patient's health care decision processes and activities, including medical compliance for the purpose of promoting greater wellness;

* to provide manipulative and nutritional services and programs for the purpose of reducing the need for prescription medicine;

* to assist in providing access to medical diagnostic and dental care to the working poor and poor who are without the means to obtain such care on their own.

    To achieve these goals, we are currently working in conjunction with Gettysburg Hospital, particularly Vice President Joseph Edgar, to build a medical center with facilities for primary care, radiology, physical therapy, education, and research.  We also have created a foundation to provide financial assistance to the poor in need of medical or dental care.
 
    The medical center will cost approximately 4 million dollars, the foundation will need several million, and the local epidemiological cancer research that Dr. Portier and her staff are currently conducting needs approximately $300,000 to be fully funded. 
The Emmitsburg Osteopathic Primary Care Center is a non-profit, tax exempt organization.  If you would like to help us reach our goals, your donation will be greatly appreciated. 

    To donate to the building fund, the research study, or the foundation, contact either Dr. Portier by
                   phone: (301) 447-3310
                   fax: (301)-271-2650
                   letter: 52 Water Street, Thurmont, MD 21788

or board-member Rosemary McDermott by
                   phone: (301) 271-7886

    When you contact Dr. Portier or Ms. McDermott, please specify the particular fund whose goals  you would like your donation to help us achieve.  

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 2:00-5:30
Tuesday: 2:00-8:00
Wednesday: Administrative Day in office.  You can make appointments, but Dr. Portier will not be seeing patients that day.
Thursday: 2:00-8:00
Friday: 9:30-5:30
Saturday: 10:00-12:00 every other Saturday

To make an appointment with Dr. Portier, call Brenda or Dorothy any time during office hours at (301)447-3877 or come by our office located at 52 Water Street in Thurmont.