HOUSTON, March 20, 2017 /CNW/ -- Nobilis Health
Corp. (NYSE MKT: HLTH) ("Nobilis" or the "Company") today
announced the appointment of Marc
Celia as the company's Executive Vice President of
Operations. Mr. Celia will be responsible for operations of all
Nobilis facilities, working directly with facility CEOs and
administrators to promote improved individual center and
organization-wide efficiencies.
Mr. Celia has nearly 20 years of operational and managerial
experience in the healthcare services industry. He most recently
served as the Vice President of Continuous Improvement for United
Surgical Partners International/ Tenet Healthcare ("USPI"), where
he was responsible for leading operational cost transformations by
identifying and implementing best practices across hundreds of
surgical centers and hospitals throughout the country. Prior to his
role at USPI, Mr. Celia spent five years as Chief Executive Officer
of Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood, in Houston, Texas. During his tenure at Memorial
Hermann, the hospital received a multitude of accreditations and
recognitions, most notably for maintaining patient satisfaction
scores in the 95th percentile, nationally, while
boasting physician satisfaction of 100%.
"Marc is an important and critical addition to our management
team," said Harry Fleming, Chief
Executive Officer of Nobilis. "He brings an impeccable track record
of effective facility management at some of the country's largest
institutions. This is exactly the type of knowledge, experience and
business sense we need to help ensure improvement in our
facility-level and company-wide operations without compromising
Nobilis' reputation of offering the highest quality of care to its
patients."
About Nobilis Health Corp.
Nobilis (www.NobilisHealth.com) is a full-service healthcare
development and management company, with 25 locations in seven
states, including 4 hospitals, 10 ASCs and 11 clinics. In addition,
Nobilis partners with another 38 facilities across the country.
Marketing nine independent brands, Nobilis deploys a unique patient
acquisition strategy driven by proprietary direct-to-consumer
marketing technology, focusing on a specified set of procedures
that are performed at our centers by local physicians.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release
contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Canadian and United States securities laws, including the
safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements include all statements that do not relate solely to
historical or current facts and may be identified by the use of
words such as "may," "believe," "will," "expect," "project,"
"estimate," "anticipate," "plan" or "continue." These
forward-looking statements are based on current plans and
expectations and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties
and other factors which could significantly affect current plans
and expectations and our future financial condition and results.
These factors, which could cause actual results, performance and
achievements to differ materially from those anticipated, include,
but are not limited to our ability to successfully maintain
effective internal controls over financial reporting; our ability
to implement our business strategy, manage the growth in our
business, and integrate acquired businesses; the risk of litigation
and investigations, and liability claims for damages and other
expenses not covered by insurance; the risk that payments from
third-party payers, including government healthcare programs, may
decrease or not increase as costs increase; adverse developments
affecting the medical practices of our physician limited partners;
our ability to maintain favorable relations with our physician
limited partners; our ability to grow revenues by increasing case
and procedure volume while maintaining profitability at the Nobilis
facilities; failure to timely or accurately bill for services; our
ability to compete for physician partners, patients and strategic
relationships; the risk of changes in patient volume and patient
mix; the risk that laws and regulations that regulate payments for
medical services made by government healthcare programs could cause
our revenues to decrease; the risk that contracts are cancelled or
not renewed or that we are not able to enter into additional
contracts under terms that are acceptable to us; and the risk of
potential decreases in our reimbursement rates. The foregoing are
significant factors we think could cause our actual results to
differ materially from expected results. However, there could be
additional factors besides those listed herein that also could
affect us in an adverse manner.
We have not undertaken any obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements. All of our forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date of the document in which they
are made or, if a date is specified, as of such date. Subject to a
mandatory requirements of applicable law, we disclaim any
obligation or undertaking to provide any updates or revisions to
any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in our
expectations or any changes in events, conditions, circumstances or
information on which the forward-looking statement is based. All
subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable
to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in
their entirety by the foregoing factors and in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, filed
on March 15, 2017, as updated by other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact Information:
Tuan Tran
Vice President of Investor Relations
TTran@nobilishealth.com
713-355-8614
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