Orthopaedic Solutions Management pools the machinery of running an orthopedic practice while keeping clinical control with physicians. Its wager: independence gets stronger when the back office gets bigger.
Four doctors brought a wartime lesson home to Buffalo: medicine works better as a team. Eight decades later, the hard part is still getting the handoff right.
Vituity is a 100% physician-owned and led multispecialty partnership delivering acute care across the United States. Founded in 1971 as California Emergency Physicians (CEP America), it rebranded as Vituity in 2018, combining 'vital' and 'acuity.' Today roughly 5,500 doctors and clinicians staff emergency departments, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, psychiatry, neurology, telehealth and more across hundreds of care sites in 27+ states, treating millions of patients a year - all without private equity, insurer, or hospital-system ownership.

Michael Harrington is the Chief Executive Officer, Practice Management at Vituity, the physician-owned, multispecialty partnership headquartered in Emeryville, California. An accountant by training, he has spent more than three decades inside healthcare operations and stepped into the CEO role in 2002 after years as Vituity's CFO.