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www.HartfordBusiness.com • December 11, 2017 • Hartford Business Journal 3 Newsmakers EDITORIAL Greg Bordonaro | Editor, ext. 139, gbordonaro@HartfordBusiness.com Gregory Seay | News Editor, ext. 144, gseay@HartfordBusiness.com Matt Pilon | News Editor, ext. 143, mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com John Stearns | Staff Writer, ext. 145, jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com Patricia Daddona | Web Editor, ext. 127, pdaddona@HartfordBusiness.com Stephanie Meagher | Research Director Heide Martin | Research Assistant Steve Laschever | Photographer BUSINESS Joe Zwiebel | President and Publisher, ext. 132, jzwiebel@HartfordBusiness.com Donna Collins | Associate Publisher, ext. 121, dcollins@HartfordBusiness.com Sara Lavery | Office and Project Manager, ext. 137, saralavery@hartfordbusiness.com Allison Williams | Office & Sales Coordinator, ext. 122, awilliams@HartfordBusiness.com Amy Orsini | Events Manager, ext. 134, aorsini@HartfordBusiness.com Jaime Rudy | Sales Director, ext. 124, jrudy@HartfordBusiness.com David Hartley | Sr. Accounts Manager, ext. 130, dhartley@HartfordBusiness.com Christopher Mazzaia | Sr. Accounts Manager, ext. 128, cmazzaia@HartfordBusiness.com Kristen P. 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Box 330, Congers, NY 10920-9894 www.copyright.com www.HartfordBusiness.com (860) 236-9998 Stanley's new Hartford presence "Strong urban cores, and in particular a vibrant capital city, are essential to Connecticut's ability to thrive, which is why we decided to locate this important new initiative in Hartford." Stanley Black & Decker President and CEO Jim Loree on his company's decision to open an advanced manufacturing center in downtown Hartford. Changing the healthcare experience "This combination brings together the expertise of two great companies to remake the consumer healthcare experience. With the analytics of Aetna and CVS Health's human touch, we will create a healthcare platform built around individuals." CVS Health President and CEO Larry J. Merlo on his company's acquisition of Hartford health insurer Aetna. Dr. Michael Joyce | President of Lighthouse Surgery Holdings By John Stearns jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com An orthopedic surgeon representing a $26.5 mil- lion outpatient surgery center proposed at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center for orthopedic procedures makes no bones that the center marks a progression in ortho- pedic care, not a response to Hartford HealthCare's new Bone & Joint Institute. "In fact, the Bone & Joint Institute was built in response to the very successful Connecti- cut Joint Replacement Institute, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary" at St. Francis, said Dr. Michael Joyce, president of Lighthouse Surgery Holdings, a group of surgeons who formed a joint ven- ture with St. Francis to build Woodland Surgery Center. The center, for which Lighthouse and Trinity Health Of New England filed a Certificate of Need (CON) with the state, aims to deliver high-quality care and reduce long hospital stays for spine and joint-replacement surger- ies. It will also offer more simple outpatient procedures, Joyce said, expecting 28 to 32 surgeons to work from the center, with 20 to 22 investor partners in Lighthouse. The center will focus on musculoskeletal care and comprehensive orthopaedic sports medicine, said Joyce, who is also co-director of the Connecticut Sports Medi- cine Institute at St. Francis, and an orthopaedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Sports Specialists in Glastonbury. What's the surgery center's biggest challenge? The certificate of need process is difficult and un- predictable. That adds difficulty recruiting surgeons and encouraging those physicians to invest in a new venture. Connecticut was just ranked 49th in desire for physicians to practice medicine. I disagree. New England has so much to offer young surgeons; we need a state-of-the-art center with potential for physician investment to compete on the national stage. What's the surgery center's biggest opportunity? Not long ago patients were spending several days in a hospital for spine and joint-replacement procedures. We now do nearly 1,000 outpatient spine surgeries annually at St. Francis. We also have over 2,000 joint- replacement patients going home within 23 hours of surgery. We expect outpatient joint-replacement and spine surgery to become commonplace — and we plan to be a leader in that area. How would you describe the competitive landscape among ambulatory orthopedic surgery centers today? The overall landscape for surgery centers in Connect- icut is well-balanced for now. At the Woodland Surgery Center, nearly half of our outpatient surgeries will be moving from the inpatient hospital center. Some surgi- cal volume will be moving from the ambulatory surgery center within St. Francis and the rest from growth in orthopaedic surgery for our aging population. Tell us something about you many people don't know. 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