We believe that healthcare is primarily patient and physician centered. The pressures on physicians - from reduced reimbursements, higher malpractice rates and increased competition - are causing physicians to consider different ways of conducting their business. Patients are becoming more demanding, sophisticated and educated.

An ambulatory surgery center or surgical hospital provides several answers to the pressures confronting the healthcare system today:

• Deliver services more efficiently for both physicians and patients. Higher on-time percentage than community hospitals. Patients wait less and physicians can perform more cases in the same amount of time.
• Focus on surgery provides higher quality of care. Patients regularly give 98 percent approval ratings for surgery centers and surgical hospitals. Infection rate for ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals is less than 1 percent.
• Lower the general cost of care due to efficiency. With a physician partnership, the benefits of ownership can supplement declining revenue in the physician practices.
• Physicians and patients are primary customers of the ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital facilities and they ought to be treated as such.