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25 HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | June 6, 2022 RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY! Sponsorship & Exhibitor Packages Available Call 908-963-9525 or email ctcannabis@nebusinessmedia.com For additional information go to hartfordbusiness.com/info/ct-cannabis-conference-expo CT CANNABIS CONFERENCE & EXPO THE BUSINESS OF CANNABIS PRESENTS Aqua Turf Club | 556 Mulberry Street | Plantsville, CT September 14, 2022 | 8AM-5PM Close to home Dr. James Cardon is Hartford HealthCare's chief clinical integration officer and CEO of Integrated Care Partners, which includes the health system's employed physicians. Cardon said HHC currently has "dozens" of construction projects either underway or ongoing in the state. They include a mix of urgent, ambulatory, primary and specialty care services. HHC opened its 23rd GoHealth Urgent Care center in the state in Newington on May 25, with more in the pipeline. "We want to get to where there is a need and not just have more to have more," Cardon said. "This is not a Starbucks strategy where you have more and more. We want to provide access and care where needed. We want to assess the need and then, if there is a need, to build it." Cardon said HHC's focus is to offer services outside of the more costly hospital setting. "It's kind of like a blitzkrieg, they have gone in pretty much all of the markets within the state," Goodin said of Hartford HealthCare's aggressive expansion. "They are even going toward the Springfield, [Massachusetts] area. In order of being busy with projects HHC is at the top of the list, followed by Yale New Haven Health and then Trinity Health of New England and Nuvance Health." Small players in the game It's not just the large hospital systems aggressively expanding their real estate footprints. Smaller entities are as well. Lynne Rosen is the CEO of Brookfield-based PhysicianOne Urgent Care, which acquired West Hartford's New England Urgent Care in 2020. She said her company currently has 23 locations, including 16 in Connecticut, with plans to add about a dozen more in the next 18 months. "Our goal is to have an urgent care within 10 minutes of every patient's home," she said. "The healthcare system is very stressed and patients have a hard time accessing primary care. We believe we can give people the care they need and want and demand, when they need it." Rosen said that five years out she foresees "a continued growth of urgent care centers in all states. There is always a need for face-to-face care. The integration of urgent care, on- demand care and telehealth into the broader healthcare system will make it more efficient and effective." Hartford HealthCare's newest GoHealth urgent care center in Newington. PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED James Cardon Lynne Rosen