One week from today, we will cut the ribbon on one of our largest micro-hospitals our company has ever built – the almost 60,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Campus we are opening this summer through our partnership with Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican.
It is the first of four new micro-hospitals we will open in Las Vegas throughout this year, with Dignity Health – Blue Diamond, Flamingo and Sahara being the others.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, on June 15th Emerus and Dignity are hosting what could become the largest public event in our history. Dignity is flying in officials from its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, and more than 1,500 people are expected to participate, tour our new hospital and see firsthand why we are the juggernaut of micro-hospitals.
We can all take pride in the hard work that brought us to this point. In addition to opening the four micro-hospitals with Dignity in 2017, we are also excited to open our first micro-hospital with both The Hospitals of Providence in El Paso, Texas, and St. Alphonsus in Boise, Idaho, as well as our ninth micro-hospital with Baylor, Scott and White Health in Dallas – Austin. We are also very excited and proud of all the hard work that helped us complete our recent deal with Memorial Hermann Hospital – an agreement that resets our ability to rebrand and grow in Houston.
If you’re sensing a theme here, let me assure you, it’s intentional. Hard work by each of you is helping to drive the transformation of our small, physician-founded and physician-driven company into a national platform that provides exceptional value to the local health system provider network / continuum of care and that is transforming the patient health care experience.
As the issues surrounding Freestanding EDs have become a national concern, Emerus has differentiated itself in the marketplace given the value you all deliver to our health system partners and the local communities. Our “special sauce” – facility layout (8-10 beds, shared services, room set-up), processes (triage, cross-functional training), and philosophy (values, culture, innovative patient-centered care) are not easily replicable by local health systems. Our strategic approach to focus our growth on partnerships with leading health systems is the right one, but it cannot succeed if these health systems weren’t convinced that our people and our concept are the best available.
So, please take a moment to celebrate as we reach each new Emerus milestone on our journey together. Then, reflect on how we did it, and consider what it will take to scale to even greater heights. It will require the very best from each of us – the best effort and ideas we can produce. Thank you for all you do for our patients and the communities we serve.
