The Next Generation of General Surgeons
The Surgicalist Group is a surgeon founded and led organization.
Our History
It’s no surprise that hospitals are dependent on community general surgeons for covering emergency surgery cases through an on-call arrangement. This model hasn’t changed in decades. Due to changes in training and multiple factors competing for the surgeons attention, this archaic arrangement is no longer the best way to care for patients. Over recent years timely patient care and hospital service has suffered under this out dated model.
In today’s advanced healthcare environment, it is difficult for a community surgeon to have a competitive practice and service the hospital and its patients in an expedited fashion. Just as internal medicine separated in-patient and out-patient care decades ago, it is time for surgery to do the same.
- Our Vision
- Mission
- Core Values
The Surgicalist Group’s vision, mission, and core values drive how we operate. These tenants are more than words on a wall or in a handbook. These are ideas connecting each of our colleagues and the reason we came to work together. We want to make
surgical care better for everyone – our patients, our clinicians, our business colleagues, and importantly, our hospital partners.
Our Vision
Our vision is to transform the way acute care surgery is practiced by ensuring every patient entrusted to our Surgicalists receives the right care at the right time.
Our Mission
We advance the surgical standard of care through engaged Surgicalist champions who leverage innovation, practice evidence-based care, make data-driven decision, and are experts on how to deliver value to our patients and hospital partners.
Core Values
Compassion
- We recognize every patient’s journey is unique and we work to accommodate differences
- In our practice, we provide the same evidence-based standard of care for every patient, regardless of their life circumstances
- We anticipate the needs of others and approach others with empathy and sincerity
Stewardship
- Our teams embrace a culture of service to patients, our hospital partners, and our colleagues.
- We encourage involvement in charitable activities to support our local communities
- Every colleague makes decisions based on the collective needs of our stakeholders
- As stewards to our hospital partners, we work to improve utilization efficiency to improve throughput and reduce waste.
Innovation
- Our Surgicalist teams apply lean principles to streamline work at the intersection of ED and OR operations
- By incorporating design thinking and input from multiple stakeholders, we create smarter ways to operate, both in the surgical and business arenas
- We apply predictive analysis to reconstruct workflows to optimize operations
- Work with hospital partners to reduce the total cost of care* for patients in our practice
Quality
- Our practice applies evidence-based protocols to drive improvements in quality outcomes
- We assess quality outcomes through objective data-driven methodologies
- Our Surgicalist teams are accountable and commit to achieve the quality outcomes goals for patients under our care.
Our Leaders
Mit Desai MD, FACS
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Dr. Mit Desai graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a B.S with Honors in Microbiology in 1992 and Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1997. His residency was at UIC-MGH in Chicago, where he was the Chief Resident and Surgical Resident Teacher of the year. He received his certification from The American Board of Surgery in 2004 and re-certified in 2012. He was also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and has been for over 10 years. Dr. Desai …
Dave Terry DO
Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder
David Terry completed a fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery through Michigan State University in 2009, followed by …
Jay Saxena
VP Operations & Data Analytics
An operations management leader in engineering and healthcare, Jay provides oversight of the organization’s day-to-day…
Casey Thomas DO, FACS, FACOS
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Thomas earned his B.S. from Western Michigan University in 1993 and his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Michigan…
Bruce Curran
VP Finance
Bruce Curran, VP of Finance, graduated with a degree in Accounting from the University of Florida. With an extensive…