Manhattan-based Hospital for Special Surgery is expanding its Connecticut footprint by teaming up with Stamford Health, a system serving Fairfield County, to form a center for advanced orthopedic care, the two organizations announced this morning.
HSS Orthopedics at Stamford Health, will begin accepting its first ambulatory surgery patients at Stamford’s Tully Health Center, an outpatient facility, later this month. The center will be staffed with HSS surgeons.
Then, before the end of the year, HSS will take over the entire fifth floor of the Fairfield County health system’s Stamford Hospital, a new 305-bed acute care tertiary facility. HSS will institute best orthopedic practices at the hospital, bringing in its own surgeons and recruiting new ones.
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“This is all about making better care more accessible,” Lou Shapiro, HSS president and chief executive, told Crain’s before the announcement. “We fully expect patients to travel [throughout] the entire state and surrounding states to receive world-class care in Stamford.”
Brian Grissler, the chief executive of Stamford Health, estimated that the new ambulatory surgery center at Tully Health Center would handle more than 400 ambulatory cases by the end of this year and that adding the new inpatient unit in late 2017 would add “significant volume.”
Shapiro said the partnership represents one strategy HSS is employing to expand its reach beyond Manhattan while retaining its independence—even as other hospitals consolidate. “We treasure our ability to remain a strong, independent organization, as opposed to what everybody else in the market has opted for,” he said.
HSS will also appoint a new chair of orthopedics, a “very senior” tenured surgeon, from within its ranks to oversee all orthopedics at Stamford Health, Shapiro said. More details are forthcoming, he said.
HSS identified southern Connecticut as an area for expansion some years ago. In 2015 HSS opened up the HSS Stamford outpatient center at the Chelsea Piers Connecticut sports complex, offering non-surgical care, including MRI and pre- and post-surgery visits.
Last year, Stamford Health opened HSS Sports Rehab, which is managed by HSS, adjacent to the HSS Stamford outpatient center. It provides rehabilitative therapy for sport-related injuries and conditions. That collaboration was the first step in HSS and Stamford Health’s partnership, a spokesman said. But until now, those patients had to travel to HSS in Manhattan if they needed surgery.
HSS and Stamford Health will split revenue from the new orthopedic surgery center evenly, and HSS might look to replicate the business model in other regional markets, Shapiro said, but he declined to say where HSS is looking to expand next.
“We have a handful of projects we’re exploring in the U.S. outside of the tristate area and probably another half a dozen or so internationally,” he said.
HSS has grown its footprint in other ways. It offers its orthopedic consulting services worldwide, it runs an online education program and it has forged alliances with hospitals in Brazil and South Korea that are working to attain the HSS designation as orthopedic centers of excellence.
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Manhattan-based Hospital for Special Surgery is expanding its Connecticut footprint by teaming up with Stamford Health, a system serving Fairfield County, to form a center for advanced orthopedic care, the two organizations announced this morning.
HSS Orthopedics at Stamford Health, will begin accepting its first ambulatory surgery patients at Stamford’s Tully Health Center, an outpatient facility, later this month. The center will be staffed with HSS surgeons.
Then, before the end of the year, HSS will take over the entire fifth floor of the Fairfield County health system’s Stamford Hospital, a new 305-bed acute care tertiary facility. HSS will institute best orthopedic practices at the hospital, bringing in its own surgeons and recruiting new ones.
“This is all about making better care more accessible,” Lou Shapiro, HSS president and chief executive, told Crain’s before the announcement. “We fully expect patients to travel [throughout] the entire state and surrounding states to receive world-class care in Stamford.”
Brian Grissler, the chief executive of Stamford Health, estimated that the new ambulatory surgery center at Tully Health Center would handle more than 400 ambulatory cases by the end of this year and that adding the new inpatient unit in late 2017 would add “significant volume.”
Shapiro said the partnership represents one strategy HSS is employing to expand its reach beyond Manhattan while retaining its independence—even as other hospitals consolidate. “We treasure our ability to remain a strong, independent organization, as opposed to what everybody else in the market has opted for,” he said.
HSS will also appoint a new chair of orthopedics, a “very senior” tenured surgeon, from within its ranks to oversee all orthopedics at Stamford Health, Shapiro said. More details are forthcoming, he said.
HSS identified southern Connecticut as an area for expansion some years ago. In 2015 HSS opened up the HSS Stamford outpatient center at the Chelsea Piers Connecticut sports complex, offering non-surgical care, including MRI and pre- and post-surgery visits.
Last year, Stamford Health opened HSS Sports Rehab, which is managed by HSS, adjacent to the HSS Stamford outpatient center. It provides rehabilitative therapy for sport-related injuries and conditions. That collaboration was the first step in HSS and Stamford Health’s partnership, a spokesman said. But until now, those patients had to travel to HSS in Manhattan if they needed surgery.
HSS and Stamford Health will split revenue from the new orthopedic surgery center evenly, and HSS might look to replicate the business model in other regional markets, Shapiro said, but he declined to say where HSS is looking to expand next.
“We have a handful of projects we’re exploring in the U.S. outside of the tristate area and probably another half a dozen or so internationally,” he said.
HSS has grown its footprint in other ways. It offers its orthopedic consulting services worldwide, it runs an online education program and it has forged alliances with hospitals in Brazil and South Korea that are working to attain the HSS designation as orthopedic centers of excellence.
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