Dorcas Lacayo, MD, MPH

Dr. Dorcas Lacayo practices family medicine at Hope Direct Healthcare in Union City. Lacayo earned a medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Honduras, then completed a family medicine residency and a Master's in Public Health at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York, and has practiced medicine for more than 13 years.

Prevention sits at the center of that practice. Lacayo has watched insurance requirements crowd out the doctor-patient relationship, turning patients into numbers and pushing doctors toward speed over connection, and believes that dynamic has left both sides worse off. Removing insurance from the practice reverses that, making room to spend real time with each patient and rebuild the kind of relationship a rushed visit tends to lose.

Cutting out the insurance layer also lowers overhead, and those savings get passed along directly, keeping quality care affordable for patients of every age and background.