When HMA acquires a hospital, it immediately sets out to upgrade the quality of healthcare delivery and simultaneously expand its medical services so that community residents no longer need to commute to major urban centers for specialty medical care, except in rare instances. Apart from providing additional medical services, HMA upgrades the physical facility to today''s technology. It also introduces a number of proven hospital management practices that greatly improve a patient¹s hospitalization experience, principally through decentralized management with centralized operating systems.

HMA''s strategy enables local physicians to refer more patients to the HMA community hospital than previously; patients from outlying areas to now use the upgraded HMA healthcare centers when previously they journeyed long distances to larger city hospitals, and enable HMA to generate substantially more revenue per dollar of fixed cost than the same hospitals did prior to its acquisition by HMA.