CommonSpirit Health is leaning harder into ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and outpatient expansion as it works to stabilize margins and reposition its portfolio beyond traditional hospital care. This idea – leaning into outpatient – is one that CommonSpirit leaders have repeatedly spoken up about. That group includes President and CEO Wright Lassiter, who touched on the topic recently at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. “We are looking very critically at if CommonSpirit is the best to serve every community we currently serve, and we are making some decisions to transition parts of our portfolio to other providers who can serve those communities better than we can,” Lassiter said at the health care conference.
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Source: https://ascnews.com/2026/02/for-commonspirit-ambulatory-surgery-emerging-as-key-growth-lever/