Regent Surgical Health Strengthens Leadership Team to Drive Next Phase of Growth

Regent Surgical Health, the nation’s largest private joint venture operator of surgery centers and leading management and development companies, today announced that James (Jay) Colehour, with more than ten years’ experience as a healthcare business leader, has joined the company’s business development team as Vice President. In his new role, Colehour will leverage his medical…

Getting to Yes: JV Partnerships Between Hospitals & Surgery Centers

Technical advances in anesthesia, orthopedic devices, and surgical procedures, coupled with shifting payer models, are changing the game and creating opportunity for hospital-surgeon ASC joint ventures focused on spine and orthopedics. In the first installment in a two-part series, Phalen summarized how procedures and payer models are playing a role, and in part two, Phalen…

Strategies to Help Surgery Centers Navigate Through OR Nursing Shortage

A recent study published by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Nursing: Supply and Demand through 2020, reveals that the U.S. economy will create 1.6 million job openings for nurses through 2020. Of the 1.6 million job openings, 700,000 will be newly-created opportunities, while 880,000 will result from retirements. The study also found that…

Regent Launches Bundled Payment Strategy in Multiple Markets

Already a thought leader in the shift to value-based care, Regent Surgical Health has launched a bundled payment strategy within the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) marketplace. As part of the program, the company plans to begin managing episodes of care with a bundled payment approach in multiple markets. “When a bundled payment opportunity comes in,…

Renown Regenerative Medicine Expert Anticipates New Oregon ASC

Construction of the first ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in the Pacific Northwest designed specifically to treat outpatient total joint replacement and spine disorders is now underway, and among the healthcare leaders looking forward to its completion is Rahul Desai, M.D., an internationally recognized musculoskeletal radiologist. Dr. Desai is one of a group of physicians affiliated…