About Kura Health
Primary Care Built Around Access, Trust, and Follow-Through
Kura Health is a nurse practitioner-led primary care practice in Buffalo, New York, created to make healthcare feel more accessible, practical, and connected.
Our approach combines in-person care, virtual visits when appropriate, prevention, chronic disease management, care coordination, and modern access tools to help patients stay engaged in their health.
Why Kura Health Exists
Kura Health was created to make primary care feel more accessible, more personal, and more connected. Too often, patients are left trying to navigate appointments, refills, records, chronic conditions, test results, and referrals on their own. Kura Health was built to make that experience clearer and more manageable.
Our goal is to provide primary care that helps patients understand their health, address everyday concerns, manage chronic conditions, and know what steps to take when a higher level of care is needed.
Good primary care is not only about treating problems when they appear. It is also about prevention, follow-up, communication, and helping patients stay connected to the right care over time.
What We Believe
The Kura Care Model
Kura Health combines relationship-based primary care with modern access tools and coordinated services to support patients across everyday and long-term health needs.
Primary Care
Care for routine health concerns, preventive visits, medication review, lab review, and ongoing health planning.
Chronic Disease Management
Support for conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol problems, obesity, and other long-term health concerns.
Preventive Care
Screenings, risk review, wellness planning, and follow-up designed to support long-term health.
Sick Visits
Evaluation for common non-emergency concerns, with guidance when symptoms require urgent or emergency care.
Virtual Visits
Telehealth visits when clinically appropriate, helping patients access care without unnecessary barriers.
Care Coordination
When additional expertise or testing is needed, Kura Health helps patients understand the next step and coordinates referrals when appropriate.
What Patients Can Expect
Patients at Kura Health can expect primary care that is practical, respectful, and focused on long-term health. Visits are designed to address the concern at hand while also considering prevention, chronic disease risk, medications, lifestyle factors, and appropriate follow-up.
Start With Access
Book online, call the office, or use the appropriate patient access tool when our team requests information.
Receive Thoughtful Care
Your provider will review your concerns, history, medications, and care needs to help create a practical plan.
Understand the Plan
Kura Health focuses on clear explanations, next steps, testing when appropriate, and follow-up planning.
Stay Connected
Established patients can use the mobile app or patient portal for routine messages, refills, records, invoices, and ongoing access.
Nurse Practitioner-Led Primary Care
Kura Health is a nurse practitioner-led primary care practice. Nurse practitioners are licensed healthcare professionals trained to evaluate symptoms, diagnose and manage many common conditions, order and review testing, prescribe medications when appropriate, provide preventive care, and coordinate referrals.
At Kura Health, we are transparent about who is providing care. Our providers practice within their training, certification, licensure, and clinical experience. Patients are welcome to ask questions about their care plan, including whether physician or specialist involvement should be considered.
Nurse practitioner-led care works best when it is clear, collaborative, and grounded in good clinical judgment. That includes knowing what can be managed safely in primary care and when a patient's needs require additional evaluation.
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Knowing When to Escalate Care
Primary care includes recognizing both what can be managed safely in the primary care setting and when additional expertise is needed. If a patient's symptoms, test results, medical history, or treatment needs suggest that physician involvement, specialist evaluation, urgent care, emergency care, or additional testing may be appropriate, Kura Health will discuss the next step and help coordinate care when appropriate.
Patients are welcome to ask questions about their diagnosis, treatment plan, testing options, referrals, or whether physician or specialist involvement may be appropriate.
The Right Care, at the Right Time
Some concerns can be managed in primary care. Others require imaging, specialist evaluation, urgent care, emergency care, or a different level of support. Kura Health's role is to help patients understand the next step and avoid navigating those decisions alone.
Innovation That Makes Care Easier
Kura Health uses modern tools and coordinated services to reduce unnecessary friction in healthcare. Depending on clinical need and availability, this may include virtual visits, patient portal access, mobile app tools, remote monitoring support, document upload, and coordination of home-based diagnostic services such as X-ray imaging when appropriate.
The goal is not technology for its own sake. The goal is to make care easier to access, easier to understand, and easier to follow through on.
Virtual Visits
Telehealth visits are available when a concern can be appropriately addressed without an in-person examination.
Patient Portal and Mobile App
Established patients can manage appointments, request refills, send routine secure messages, view records, and access invoices.
Document Upload
Patients can securely upload requested documents such as IDs, insurance cards, lab results, imaging reports, or outside records.
Diagnostic Coordination
When clinically appropriate and available, Kura Health may help coordinate diagnostic services such as home-based imaging support.
Availability of home-based services may depend on clinical appropriateness, insurance coverage, geography, scheduling, and partner availability.
How Kura Supports Ongoing Care
Primary care works best when patients have a clear way to stay connected. Kura Health supports ongoing care through visits, follow-up planning, patient access tools, and coordination when additional services are needed.
Before Your Visit
Patients can schedule online, complete registration steps, and upload requested documents so the care team has the information needed for the visit.
During Your Visit
Your provider will review your concerns, history, medications, and goals, then explain next steps in a clear and practical way.
After Your Visit
Established patients can use the portal or mobile app for routine messages, refill requests, records, lab results when available, and invoices.
Our Community
Growing Access to Primary Care
Kura Health is expanding primary care availability for adults in Lackawanna, Buffalo, and surrounding communities. With Tanvir Shagar, FNP-BC, and Elizabeth Hoover, ANP-BC, both accepting patients, our team brings complementary experience to preventive care, everyday health concerns, and complex chronic conditions.
Kura Health is listed by the New York State Department of Health as an approved service commitment site under the Medicaid 1115 waiver workforce initiatives. This workforce-site recognition aligns with the practice's commitment to accessible primary care.
Primary Care Capacity Is Growing
Our two experienced nurse practitioners are welcoming new patients.
Read our practice announcementReady to Establish Care With Kura Health?
Schedule an appointment to begin primary care in person or virtually when appropriate.