Our Vision for Essent Healthcare and its Essential Hospitals

Each community we serve is unique. Essent works with our local physicians, healthcare professionals and civic leaders to determine the hospital services most needed in that community. By working together we provide extraordinary care, great patient service in a hospital that the community can be proud to call its own.

The result is a fruitful relationship between our hospitals and the communities today, and a vision for meeting the healthcare needs well into the future.
One of the lessons learned by Essent is the commitment to deliberate, sustainable growth. Essent will make only the strongest acquisitions at a steady pace.

With this long-term vision for success, Essent Healthcare applies patience and discipline to its strategy for growing the company and its hospitals. The aging population of the U.S., the overabundance and duplicative nature of hospital systems, and the continued financial pressures facing the health care industry translate into opportunities for well-managed hospitals to grow and prosper.

Essent will approach hospitals that fit a particular criterion important to a hospital's long-term success. Among the core criteria for Essent hospitals are:
• Full-service institutions offering what people need and expect from a quality community hospital.
• An essential part of their communities. A simple test is this: If the hospital suddenly disappeared, would the community feel a significant loss of access to good health care? If so, it's an essential hospital.
• Located in communities that are growing and prospering.
• A good corporate citizen as well as a high-quality provider of health care services.