3 Points on How Outpatient Satellite Provides Synergies for Pennsylvania Surgery Center

Darin Jay Hill, chief development officer for Titan Health Corp., provides three points on how synergies in a satellite facility built by Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System can enhance volume at a new ambulatory surgery center located there. The ASC, jointly owned by the system and physicians, is expected to open in the fall.

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1. ASC will help align independent physicians. A new ASC, with three ORs and two procedures rooms, will be part of West Penn Allegheny’s Outpatient Care Center in Peters Township, Pa. In addition to investors who are employed physicians at West Penn Allegheny, independent physicians have been invited to invest, allowing them to align with the hospital without being employed.


2. Other services bring synergies for ASC. “The outpatient care center will provide one-stop health services for patients,” Mr. Hill says. The center, with 50,000 square feet of medical space, houses physician offices, radiation oncology, medical oncology, laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging.

 

3. Time-share offices enhance use of ASC. Physicians can occupy office space on a time-share basis. This allows specialists from West Penn Allegheny’s flagship hospital to be on-site, making it more likely that they will use the ASC. The offices accommodate three shifts per day in two wings, bringing in six different physician groups per day. “The time share space is booked solid,” Mr. Hill says. “Making it easy for physicians to be directly next to the ASC is good for patients, the physicians and the ASC.”

 

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