FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Leawood, KS,- NueHealth, LLC (“NueHealth”) is proud to announce the opening of the Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in partnership with Main Line Health, the Rothman Institute, and several individual orthopaedists. The new 24,000 square foot ambulatory surgery center is the largest specialty outpatient surgery center and largest freestanding ambulatory surgery center in the region.
Located on the fourth floor of a brand new medical office building on Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Campus, the Orthopaedic Surgery Center is designed with patient safety and comfort as top priority. The facility houses four operating room that are each larger than 600 square feet and three 250 square-foot procedure rooms, along with special preoperative bays, post-anesthesia care unit bays and recovery bays. The facility is an extension of Bryn Mawr Hospital’s orthopaedic center of excellence; an estimated 27 surgeons will provide patients who have a wide range of orthopaedic diagnoses with superior surgery and procedures.
Under a management services agreement with the joint venture, NueHealth will provide the Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Bryn Mawr Hospital with day-to-day management and operations support, including accounting, materials management, payor contracting, benefits administration and billing and collections.
“This facility is unique to the Philadelphia healthcare marketplace,” said Whitney Courser, Senior Vice President of Business Development & Marketing for NueHealth. “It simultaneously accelerates and capitalizes on an industry wide shift toward emphasizing quality and value of focused care sites.” With the goal of streamlining care and lowering costs, the facility’s focused design includes a generous floor plan that allows for more complex procedures typically reserved for inpatient settings. By emphasizing the quality and value of focused care sites over their larger acute-care counterparts, the Center will be a leader in facilitating value-based care delivery.
ABOUT NUEHEALTH
NueHealth, LLC, is a privately held nationally trusted healthcare partner with more than 10,000 physicians and 25 health systems delivering approximately $776 million of consolidated revenue annually in 28 states. Our core business is comprehensive outpatient surgical care. Our market development is concentrated in four major regions, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, Texas and Mid-West. Since 1997, we have been successfully developing joint ventures with more than 150 high-value sites of service supported by over 2500 associates, including ASCs, MUVE™ hyper specialty joint replacement centers and specialty surgical hospitals. Our efforts have helped stabilize provider independence through wealth creation, ownership, and increased referral volume while successfully guiding them through the transition from fee for service to value based risk contracting. NueHealth has developed the industry’s most comprehensive Ambulatory Center of Excellence™(ACE) platform that assists payors, health systems and providers in delivering an appropriate alternative to fee for service, high-cost care for fully insured members and self-insured covered lives.
ABOUT BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL
Bryn Mawr Hospital, a member of Main Line Health, is a 287-bed, not-for-profit acute-care teaching hospital dedicated to helping the community stay well ahead on the path to lifelong health. Bryn Mawr Hospital has been named as one of the top six hospitals in the Philadelphia region and top 12 in the state of Pennsylvania by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals 2017–18, and is ranked as high-performing in the specialties of gastroenterology & GI surgery, geriatrics and orthopedics. U.S. News & World Report also ranked Bryn Mawr Hospital as high performing in the following procedures/conditions: COPD, colon cancer surgery, heart failure, hip replacement and knee replacement. Bryn Mawr Hospital has earned Magnet® designation for the third time for its superior nursing staff. Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Neuro-Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (NCICU) has also received the 2015–18 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence for the second time. The National Institutes of Health Commission on Cancer has accredited the Cancer Center and the Comprehensive Breast Center has been accredited by The Joint Commission and the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Bariatric Program has earned the MBSAQIP Accredited Comprehensive Center designation from the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
ABOUT MAIN LINE HEALTH
Founded in 1985, Main Line Health is a not-for-profit health system serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs. Main Line Health’s commitment—to deliver advanced medicine to treat and cure disease while also playing an important role in prevention and disease management as well as training physicians and other health care providers—reflects their intent to keep their community and themselves well ahead. A team of more than 10,000 employees and 2,000 physicians care for patients throughout the Main Line Health system.
ABOUT ROTHMAN INSTITUTE
Rothman Institute is a private orthopaedic practice dedicated to providing communities with high-quality, compassionate, and affordable musculoskeletal care that is grounded in evidence-based medicine, the results of which will exceed expectations. Rothman Institute orthopaedists treat patients at over 25 locations in the Philadelphia-region, including orthopaedic urgent care clinics in Marlton, New Jersey and Limerick, Pennsylvania.