Preventive Medicine in Chapel Hill: Why Dr. Claire Repine Is Doing It Differently
Only about 8% of adults actually receive the preventive services recommended for them — not because they don't care, but because the system makes it genuinely hard. Dr. Repine is opening Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill this April with a different premise entirely: what if your doctor actually had time for you?
Last updated: March 2026
Here is something worth knowing about preventive care in America: only about 8% of adults actually receive the recommended preventive services. Not because people do not care about their health. Because the system makes it genuinely hard to get proactive care that goes deeper than a rushed annual checkup and a printout of your cholesterol numbers.
Dr. Claire Repine, DO, MSCP, is opening Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill this April, and the entire practice is built around a different idea. What if your doctor actually had time for you? What if your annual exam lasted long enough to talk about the things that matter, like family history, the symptoms you keep brushing off, what your hormones are doing, and what you want your health to look like in twenty years?
That is the premise. And for women in the Chapel Hill area who are tired of feeling like a number in a system that was not designed with them in mind, it is worth paying attention to.
The Problem With "Preventive Care" in Most Practices
Technically, many primary care practices offer preventive care. In practice, that usually means you schedule your annual wellness visit, wait six weeks for the appointment, get fifteen minutes with a physician managing upwards of two thousand patients, and leave with a lab order and a reminder to come back next year.
That is not a knock on those physicians. They are doing their best inside a broken model. The structure of traditional primary care makes meaningful prevention nearly impossible. There is no time to talk through a patient's full health picture, dig into family history, discuss lifestyle factors, or build the kind of relationship that allows a doctor to notice when something is off before it becomes a real problem.
Women feel this gap acutely. Health concerns that fall outside a narrow diagnostic window often get minimized or dismissed. Hormonal symptoms get attributed to stress. Fatigue gets chalked up to being busy. The patient leaves without answers, and the pattern continues.
Concierge medicine was designed to solve exactly this.
What Concierge Primary Care Actually Looks Like
At Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill, Dr. Repine keeps her patient panel intentionally small. This is the foundation of the model. When a physician is not stretched across thousands of patients, they can actually know their patients. Not just their chart. Them.
Appointments run 30 to 60 minutes. Annual wellness evaluations go even longer, up to 90 minutes, and cover mental health screenings, lifestyle assessments, chronic disease risk, and condition-specific testing based on your individual history. Research consistently shows that patients who spend more time with their physician are significantly more likely to receive preventive services and act on them.
Same-day and next-day appointments are available. So is 24/7 messaging. Unlimited office visits are included. These are not nice-to-haves. They are what make it possible to actually manage your health rather than react to crises.
If you have ever put off bringing something up because it did not feel urgent enough to schedule an appointment and fight with insurance, that dynamic disappears here.
Dr. Repine's Approach to Women's Health
Dr. Claire Repine is a board-certified osteopathic family physician and a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, placing her in a small group of physicians with advanced clinical training in hormonal transitions and midlife women's health. That credential matters because menopause and perimenopause are areas where women have historically been underserved, undertreated, and undertold about their options.
Her whole-person philosophy, rooted in osteopathic training, means she looks at physical, mental, and lifestyle factors together rather than in isolation. Osteopathic manipulative treatment is part of the toolkit when appropriate, supporting pain relief and overall wellness as components of a longer-term health strategy.
For women navigating the 25-to-40 range, that means building a strong preventive foundation: understanding your risk factors early, establishing hormone baselines, and having a physician who will take symptoms seriously rather than normalize them away. For women in the 40-to-60 range, it means having expert support through perimenopause and menopause, including the kind of nuanced hormonal care that most primary care practices do not have the training or time to provide.
Preventive screenings are personalized, not templated. Cervical cancer screening, breast health, bone density, cardiovascular risk, and hormonal evaluation. The list depends on you, your age, your family history, and what you are actually experiencing.
Prevention Is for Families, Too
Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill is a concierge primary care practice for families, not just women. Dr. Repine brings her whole-person, prevention-first approach to every patient, and the concierge model's accessibility makes it easier for everyone in the household to stay on top of their health rather than defer it indefinitely.
The lifestyle planning piece matters here. Patients who receive personalized recommendations from a physician they trust are more likely to follow through on diet changes, exercise habits, sleep, and stress management. A physician who knows your family, your work situation, and your actual life can give you genuinely useful guidance rather than generic advice.
Chapel Hill Finally Has This
Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill opens in April 2026. Dr. Repine is accepting new patients now, which means if you have been thinking about what a different kind of healthcare relationship could look like, this is the moment to find out.
The practice is built for people who want to be proactive about their health, who have felt let down by the standard model, and who want a physician who actually has time for them. The concierge approach is not a luxury for people who want better healthcare. It is a structure that makes better healthcare possible.
You can reach Concierge Medicine of Chapel Hill at 919-827-0009 or visit chapelhillcm.com to learn more and schedule a meet-and-greet with Dr. Repine.
