Becker's Healthcare March 5, 2025
As healthcare consolidation accelerates, ASCs and hospitals are increasingly looking to collaborate on partnerships and joint ventures to spark mutual growth.
Here are five things that ASC leaders have told Becker’s they look for when forging partnerships with hospitals and health systems:
1. Shared culture and values. Many ASC leaders have emphasized a need to ensure that patient care is top priority in any strategic partnership, whether with a hospital, health system, or outside investment or management group.
“As a clinician, administrator and industry consultant, private equity-acquisition groups need to keep their focus equally on three important principles for success: patient care, organizational culture and bottom-line business processes,” Robert Nelson, PA-C, former executive director of Island Eye Surgicenter...