In recent years, "community" has become a central term in healthcare reform discourses, encouraging psychology and health professions to move beyond traditional models toward practices rooted in local, interinstitutional, and interprofessional contexts. However, such references often remain at a normative or ideal level, with limited translation into real professional practices. In Italy, "Community Health Centers" (Case della Comunità) exemplify this tension, sometimes struggling to become genuine spaces of shared care and risking the reduction of "community" to a rhetorical device.This contribution explores the tensions and contradictions experienced by professionals involved in community-oriented care, focusing on the challenges of implementing new models in everyday work contexts. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with five pairs of general practitioners and psychologists who participated in Medico&PsicologoInsieme, a project launched in 2014 and promoted by the University of Bergamo. The initiative structurally integrates medical and psychological care within primary healthcare, adopting a community-based approach. Professionals work jointly to respond to citizens' needs and promote local health activation. Findings highlight the slow and complex construction of a new intervention device—still socially unrecognized—that combines distinct disciplines, identities, and epistemologies. For both doctors and psychologists, this process demanded significant redefinition of roles, boundaries, and reference frameworks. Citizens, in turn, experienced a shift in their role within care, feeling more holistically received and actively engaged. The interviews also point to long-term benefits of this integrated model for both users and professionals.In line with the ICAP framework, this study invites Work and Organizational Psychology to engage with the contradictions of community-based care. Rather than a predefined model, "community" may emerge as a negotiated, fragile, yet generative space of shared meaning and transformation.