Extend Your Network. Strengthen Your Community Footprint.

The shift toward outpatient and community-based care delivery is accelerating — driven by payer incentives, patient preferences, and the economics of keeping patients out of high-cost hospital settings. Health systems that want to remain relevant in this landscape need a strong community presence: accessible urgent care, convenient primary care, integrated mental health, and employer-facing occupational health programs. But building and operating these community-based services directly is expensive, operationally complex, and often outside a health system's core competency. The result is that many health systems have strategic plans for community expansion but lack the execution partner to make them happen.

HHS serves as that execution partner — not as a competitor, but as an operational ally. We operate in the independent practice segment, which means we understand the community-level care delivery model that health systems are trying to build. Through joint ventures, management agreements, and referral partnerships, HHS can help health systems extend their network into underserved communities without the capital expenditure and operational overhead of direct ownership. We develop and operate the outpatient locations, manage the non-clinical operations, and maintain referral alignment with your health system — keeping patients in your network and your brand visible in the community.

HHS has experience with multiple partnership models — from informal referral relationships where HHS-managed practices serve as feeders to a health system's specialty and inpatient services, to formal joint venture structures where both parties share in the investment and returns of a new urgent care or occupational health program. Industrial MD's remote Medical Direction capabilities also make HHS an effective partner in rural and suburban markets where physical presence is limited but employer demand for occupational health services is strong. The right structure depends on your market, your strategic priorities, and the specific service gaps you're trying to fill. We start every conversation by listening.