In early September 2001, Fred W. Ortmann III, founded Ortmann Healthcare Consultants. Fred had retired as a colonel from the Air Force in the late eighties, and spent his career with the military in hospital administration. Fred then helped found AMSURG in 1991 and served as the Vice President for Center Development, overseeing the development of over 100 facilities. When he retired from AMSURG, Fred decided to move closer to his home town and started his business in Columbia, South Carolina.
The company has grown in the past eight years from a small consulting firm to a major player in the ambulatory surgery center development business. Ortmann Healthcare Consultants (OHC) started its business by developing two large surgery centers in South Carolina. A year later, OLYMPUS America, Inc., conducted a national search and selected Fred as the consultant to develop a new service line for the company. This line includes a sophisticated pro forma development tool called the EndoPlanner, for which Fred is a co-patent holder. The Olympus project gave OHC a good start in the ambulatory surgery center development business. Today the company has a number of development projects across the country, ranging from Kona, Hawaii, in the west, to Goldsboro, North Carolina, in the east, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the south, and North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in the north. OHC has developed physician-owned ASCs, hospital/physician joint venture ASCs, and is currently working on two hospital outpatient surgery departments that will use physician management to run the departments.
The company is based on three rather simple principles: honesty, integrity, and excellence in all we do. To our knowledge, every ambulatory surgery center we have developed is open and successful. We believe the key to this success is that we know and understand the core concepts that yield successful ambulatory surgery centers.
Since our start in 2001, we have added staff and moved into management and ownership of centers, but continue to stand firmly on our basic principles.
We provide:
As a full service development company, we provide in-depth consulting in all aspects of ambulatory surgery development. Our strengths include physician/hospital relationships, ASC negotiation skills, development of financial Proformas, clinical services, managed care contracting, equipment planning and regulatory management.
We have extensive experience in both single and multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center development and have worked on centers featuring all of the medical specialties: orthopedics, ophthalmology, GI endoscopy, urology, ENT, GYN, plastic surgery, podiatry, bariatric surgery, pain management, and general surgery.
We have not had deficiencies on any state, Medicare, or accreditation inspection of the centers we develop. This means these centers open on time, cases begin and budgets are met. This is primarily due to our superb clinical staff that is in almost daily contact with our centers. The quality of our work has been acknowledged in a number of national publications, and our pro-formas have been recognized by many CPAs and financial institutions for their accuracy, honesty and conservative projections. Our greatest strength, however, is our people and their absolute dedication to our clients and our principles.
We also owe many thanks to the clients and business associates who have made the past 8 years such a success. Cheers to the future of Ortmann Healthcare Consultants!
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