We are now 300 million people, including the two largest generations in our country’s history -- the 78 million Baby Boomers now poised for retirement and the 74 million Echo Boomers entering the workforce. As people live longer, they will live with more chronic conditions and the burden will fall on outpatient medicine to care for them. The challenge is simple: can we create an ambulatory-care environment that meets the level of inpatient care – integrated, multidimensional and cohesive, promoting communication, collaboration and innovation? And, can it offer a richer overall user experience? Click on the bubbles below to see how the Healthcare Village works for each of its stakeholders.
Hospitals
- Retain and increase geographic reach into new markets
- Expand clinical programming into preventative care, wellness and retail medicine without adverse effect on debt load
- Operate with the rigor of the retail model with an emphasis on high revenue-per-square-foot
- Utilize partnership arrangements or capital from third-party sources to eliminate capital investment in “bricks and mortar”
- Conserve capital and available debt capacity to fund healthcare services, operations, equipment, and information technology infrastructure
Physicians
- Ameliorate problems of under capacity at hospitals by leveraging ambulatory care at HC Village
- Benefit from cross-referrals for clinical, medical, wellness and retail services through the “one-stop” healthcare destination
- Utilize professional management services, with arms-length tenant leasing and marketing
- Be part of an upscale brand, image and reputation, making it difficult for the competition to duplicate or challenge
Hospitals & Physicians
- Develop strategic service models that integrate the entire village of providers to capture a strong market position
- Produce higher revenues for physicians and hospitals
- Leverage physician-hospital revenue sharing partnerships to attract physicians as business partners
- Expand capacity for surgical procedures, routine preventative care and for ongoing treatment of chronic conditions
Patients
- Create a pleasing and appealing environment akin to a retail/entertainment district
- Offer a wide variety of healthcare services delivered to the customer in a “seamless” manner to maximize efficiency and outcomes
- Coordinating multiple independent businesses and services to appear collaborative and integrated for the consumer
- Providing high-quality, branded customer experience
