ST. GEORGE — The future of medicine in Southern Utah and one provider’s unique, patient-oriented approach to healthcare took center stage Friday afternoon at a groundbreaking for their new multispecialty health center.
With shovels drawn and smiles of accomplishment, Revere Health executives gathered with physicians and dozens of other people on the dirt lot north of Lin’s Market at 2900 E. Mall Drive to celebrate beginning construction of their new St. George facility.
Revere says it prides itself as being a leader in value-based healthcare in Utah, and Chief Operating Officer Christopher Steen told St. George News this center keeps with that mission by offering many health care services in one place, including family medicine, urgent care, cardiology, physiatry, physical therapy, orthopedics, imaging, oncology and a vein and vascular center.
Steen said the company really likes the growth it sees in St. George and bringing all of their physicians in one space as a one-stop shop will be have a great impact on the community.
“All they have to do is come here in one location and they can get all the health care they’re going to need,” Steen said, adding the new center is of the same model as Revere’s facilities in Provo and American Fork and they are excited about the new services this “hub of healthcare” will be able to provide to the area.
In fact, Revere’s new 68,000-square foot center will be home to the first outpatient imaging center in St. George, enabling the company to lower costs and increase patient satisfaction. Steen said:
When we’re offering imaging and lab services like this compared to a hospital setting, we’re usually about a third of the cost. Hospital settings, just because of their makeup and the way they are, are always more expensive, so we’re looking to do more and more in this building. Twenty years ago we would’ve said ‘we have to go to a hospital to have that done,’ well healthcare’s changed a lot and you don’t have to do that anymore.
Steen said being able to have all their physicians together in one building will not only save patients a lot of time but also a great amount of money. He said Revere has been been able to show significant savings for the last four years and has been a Medicare Accountable Care Organization for multiple years in a row.
In 2018 Revere also became the first Next Generation Accountable Care Organization in Utah by meeting certain metrics that address aspects of high-quality care, such as treatment effectiveness, patient safety, appointment availability, access to services and patient satisfaction.
“We’re one of 58 in the entire country,” Steen said. “We’ve been able to cut healthcare costs 27 percent.”
Paul Broadhead, southern division administrator for Revere told St. George News that having all of the physicians in one location is going to be a blessing to the community. Right now they are all spread around in smaller clinics, and the new building will bring them together in a model of care that the company says will benefit the providers and give patients a higher quality of care.
“It’s going to be an inviting, healing environment. They’re going to feel good going in the building, and hopefully they’re going to feel good coming out,” Broadhead said. “It will feel relaxing, not just like you’re walking into a hospital kind of setting. It will feel healthy — it’ll just feel good.”
Utah House Rep. Travis Seegmiller grew up just a stone’s throw away from the open lot and has had multiple generations of his relatives cared for by the physicians at Revere. He spoke at the ceremony about the major impact the company has had on his family throughout his life and said he is excited at the prospect of having a facility within bike riding distance for his children.
Seegmiller said his family has planted its roots firmly in the soil near his grandparents at the crossroads of St. George and Washington City in Washington fields and it is an honor to have Revere move to his community and offer care to the 43,000 constituents he represents.
“We feel very happy and excited about the fact that Revere Health now is doing the exact same thing right here in the shadow of what we consider to be our stomping grounds for all these generations,” Seegmiller said. “Thank you to Revere Health for trusting us with your future, as we trust you with our future and our families’ future in your hands too.”
Dr. Michael Anderson said he has seen a lot of changes in the town since he moved here in 1988 as a young orthopedic surgeon, watching St. George nearly triple in population. He didn’t know if he would live to see the day that a facility like this would be complete and said he was really grateful to see the construction finally happening.
“If we do this thing right, working together, supporting each other, we’ll be able to offer to patients a level of health care that previously has not been seen in Washington County,” Anderson said. “This is a recipe for success. I’m anxious and excited for the future of medicine in Southern Utah and very excited to see this building go up.”
Broadhead said the construction is expected to be complete in the early part of 2020.
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Revere Health executives, physicians and community leaders gather with the public for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new multi-specialty healthcare facility, St. George, Utah, Dec. 14, 2018 | Photo by Andrew Pinckney, St. George News
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