Carving Out Primary Care: AdventHealth's Standalone Division Experiment | Brent Davis, CEO, Primary Health Division at AdventHealth

What happens when a health system stops treating ambulatory like a side project and starts running it like a strategic priority? In this episode, Blake talks with Brent Davis, CEO of the Primary Health Division at AdventHealth. Brent explains why AdventHealth created a standalone division to build “outside-the-hospital” businesses with the focus, capital, and talent they rarely get when they’re managed inside hospital infrastructure. He breaks down the division’s three north stars - primary care preeminence, winning in the home, and value-based care competency - and shares the hard-numbers story: ~$500M committed over six years, primary care visits up sharply, and the operating subsidy meaningfully down. Listen to hear why: -“Primary care is subsidized” isn’t a strategy.-Co-located clinics, standardized templates, and smarter staffing are the unsexy moves that actually change unit economics.-The next frontier isn’t just urgent care and senior clinics.-Value-based care isn’t one grand theory; it’s market-by-market underwriting. --- Tom™ is the agentic AI that delivers orchestrated Primary Care as a Service, expanding care capacity and patient engagement while reducing clinicians’ busy workloads. Tom serves as the AI member of a patient’s primary care team . Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠Lumeris.com/platform ⁠⁠ --- AdventHealth: https://www.adventhealth.com/ Follow Brent Davis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentwdavis/ Follow Blake on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakecmadden/ For expert analysis on healthcare M&A, strategy, finance, and markets, join 66K+ readers of Blake Madden’s Hospitalogy newsletter. Subscribe here: https://hospitalogy.com/ Like our episodes? Be sure to leave us a review, and share our podcast with colleagues.