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, about building a standalone primary care division inside one of the nation’s largest health systems. Brent shares the story of how AdventHealth carved out primary care as its own business unit — with its own P&L, leadership team, and growth strategy — and why that structural decision has been a game-changer.
They discuss the challenges of recruiting primary care physicians in a market where everyone is competing for the same talent, how AdventHealth is rethinking the care model with advanced practice providers, and why the economics of primary care only work when you think about the full value chain.
Brent also opens up about the cultural shift required to move from a hospital-centric mindset to one that puts ambulatory care at the center of the strategy, and what other health systems can learn from AdventHealth’s experiment.
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