HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest hospital system, is touting a new joint venture partnership with Envision Radiology.
The imaging group is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and unaffiliated with the private equity-backed multispecialty group that filed for bankruptcy protection on May 15. HCA’s Florida Capital Hospital and Envision have teamed to open a $3.5 million, 10,000 square-foot imaging center in Tallahassee.
Clear Connect Medical Imaging will offer state-of-the-art technology, private dressing rooms and other modern amenities. It’s part of Nashville-headquartered, 182-hospital HCA’s push to improve access to community-based imaging.
“We are so proud of the joint venture with Envision Radiology and opening the new outpatient imaging center,” Chris Mosley, MBA, chief executive officer of HCA Florida Capital Hospital, said in a May 16 announcement. “This is truly an outpatient, accessible location where people can come to receive advanced imaging services without having to enter the hospital. It will make things much easier for our patients.”
The center will offer the full range of radiology services including interventional procedures, biopsies, cardiac scoring, MRIs, CTs, ultrasound and X-rays. HCA Florida Capital Hospital also will continue providing the latter four imaging exams (and more) at its main campus.
Founded in 2000 with its first Colorado location, Envision Radiology has since expanded to 54 imaging centers, also spanning Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. In 2017, the group became 100% owned by its staff through an employee stock ownership plan, according to Envision’s website.
Publicly traded HCA Healthcare Inc., meanwhile, has more than 2,300 sites of care and handled 35 million patient encounters last year. The publicly traded hospital group recorded nearly $15.5 billion in revenues in 2022 and adjusted earnings of almost $3.2 billion.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct Envision's Radiology's total number of imaging center locations. We regret this error.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.