What happens when a health system stops treating ambulatory like a side project and starts running it like a strategic priority?

In this episode, Blake talks with Brent Davis, CEO of the Primary Health Division at AdventHealth. Brent explains why AdventHealth created a standalone division to build “outside-the-hospital” businesses with the focus, capital, and talent they rarely get when they’re managed inside hospital infrastructure. 

He breaks down the division’s three north stars – primary care preeminence, winning in the home, and value-based care competency – and shares the hard-numbers story: ~$500M committed over six years, primary care visits up sharply, and the operating subsidy meaningfully down.

Listen to hear why:

-“Primary care is subsidized” isn’t a strategy.
-Co-located clinics, standardized templates, and smarter staffing are the unsexy moves that actually change unit economics.
-The next frontier isn’t just urgent care and senior clinics.
-Value-based care isn’t one grand theory; it’s market-by-market underwriting.

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AdventHealth: https://www.adventhealth.com/

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