Dr. Messalina Jordan, DO, BA Family Care

Practice Location: Albertville, AL

Written content: Breanne Brazeale
Videography: Don Redman

The video above is a continuation of our series of Featured Practitioners, specifically focused on Alabama physicians who are running a Direct Primary Care, or DPC, practice. The video features Dr. Frannie Koe interviewing Dr. Messalina Jordan, DO, who is the owner and care provider of BA Family Care in Boaz, Alabama.

Dr. Jordan opened BA Family Care in May 2019. It was the first DPC clinic in Marshall County. Dr. Jordan was a nurse for 23 years before entering medical school in her early 40s. She initially had no interest in running a Direct Primary Care practice and recalls talking to a graduating resident while she was on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program. He had expressed a desire to have a DPC clinic after graduating, and Dr. Jordan jokingly told him that “he’d better get a real job,” because she was concerned that he could not support himself in this way.

Years later, she was returning from a vacation in Florida with her husband and was dreading the paperwork awaiting her on her return. She started researching DPC clinics and called the former resident. He put her in touch with Dr. Chad Williamson, a DPC physician in Fort Payne, AL and they spoke about her options.

Now, Dr. Jordan’s Boaz clinic has been open for over 5 years and she loves it. What began as a purely DPC clinic has expanded to become a hybrid practice which now accepts some forms of insurance. Dr. Jordan’s specialty is women and children. As a physician, she’s delivered over 3,000 babies, and feels called to infant and maternal care. She is proud to provide accessible and affordable prenatal visits and family health care to members of the community who otherwise could not receive preventative care.

Dr. Jordan’s favorite facet of running a Direct Primary Care practice is the fact that she has fewer limitations and restrictions placed on the way she can interact and care for her patients. Without time limits on appointments, she feels she can get to know her patients on a deeper level, and they come to know and trust her as well. She loves speaking with her patients and says many of them become her friends. Dr. Jordan emphasized that her practice is all about collaboration and helping her patients to feel empowered to make informed decisions about their own health. She says if you could boil down her practice to one thing, it would be about teaching her patients and the north Alabama community in which she practices that protecting their health is a personal investment in their future which is worth making.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Messalina Jordan, BA Family Care, and her passion for treating women, children, and families with the dignity and compassion they deserve regardless of income level or background, please check out her website here: https://www.bafamilycare.com/