Privia Health, Velocity enter partnership to embed research into practice sites

Velocity Clinical Research and Privia Health announced a partnership to open embedded clinical research sites within Privia’s practice network. The partnership is intended to establish integrated research sites within existing Privia Care Center locations that do not currently conduct clinical trials. Velocity will staff and operate the joint research sites, bringing management experience in clinical trial operations and patient recruitment. The first of these sites is in West Texas Health, a clinic in Abilene, Texas, led by Thomas Headstream, MD. The partnership gives Velocity access to a large, integrated network of multi-specialty providers, which will expand its therapeutic base in specialty care and increase the number of physicians becoming Principal Investigators at a time when there is a chronic long-term decline in investigator numbers.