Georgetown Surgery Center by Arise Health Care

Meet the team
The professionals behind Arise Health Care

 

Jared Leger
Chief Executive Officer
Managing Partner

Jared Leger has broad experience with healthcare services transactions, start-up, transitions, and ongoing management. Jared started his healthcare career as a licensed Registered Nurse in the operating Room. Jared quickly moved into the business side of healthcare with a successful career in the
medical-device industry, growing a regional territory and developing physician relationships. Jared has always enjoyed the business side of healthcare. This has allowed him to focus on developing ancillary income for physicians as well as Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) and ASC management. Jared holds a Registered Nurse license and is CASC certified. This has allowed Jared to fully understand both the clinical and business aspects of healthcare management. Jared has a proven track record of successful healthcare ventures. Jared has syndicated and operated multiple physician-owned surgery centers. Jared has been involved with equity based corporate ASC transactions as well as ASC development. Jared has successfully re-syndicated and turned-around underperforming healthcare facilities. Jared also has experience in developing and syndicating successful physician-owned Functional Restoration Programs and Physical Therapy programs. Jared was previously a partner in a privately held healthcare management company. He also currently owns a real estate investment company based out of Austin, Texas. Jared holds family and faith as top priorities. He is married and has three daughters who keep him extremely active. He enjoys outdoor activities and travel with his family.

R. Bruce Johnson
Vice President of Development

Bruce Johnson's experience in the HC field is broad and spans twenty-plus (20+) years, twelve (12) of which are in the Ambulatory Services field.  In the 1990s, Bruce developed the physical therapy division
of HealthSouth in Austin, Texas and was promoted quickly to oversee the development of HealthSouth’s Diagnostic and Surgery Divisions of Central Texas. In 2002, Bruce was promoted to focus exclusively on its ASC division and had responsibility in Texas, New Mexico, Louisianna, and Arizona for Surgery Development. While with Surgical Care Affiliates, Bruce successfully resyndicated ASCs in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  Bruce has an impressive track record and is responsible for ASC syndications, resyndications, surgeon retention, and surgeon recruitment.  He combined these talents with a tenacious desire to form a deal and has proved vital in the formation of physician partnerships. Bruce has a talent for recruiting surgeons and ensures the partnership has the synergistic mix needed for

achieving a bottom line that's successful.

Shares in an ASC are securities which are regulated by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). As a Registered Representative with the SEC, Bruce works with physicians interested in ownership with Arise Healthcare's ASCs. Bruce also has oversight responsibility for the individual marketing needs of ASC partnerships. Bruce ensures volume retention, same-store growth, and physician satisfaction.

Bruce also played a key role in retooling operations, which was critical to the successful turnaround of our Albuquerque facility.  Bruce has lobbied for ASC legislation as well as other legislation in Austin, Texas; Washington, DC; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bruce's political background includes time in the
Texas legislature, both House and Senate, as well as working for the Republican party of Texas. Bruce is passionate about his faith, his family, and his work. He is married with one daughter.

Robert Wills, MD
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Wills graduated from the University of Texas with a BS, and then attended Southwestern Medical School where he received a medical degree. He completed a three-year surgical residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and a residency in anesthesiology with Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, a program which is recognized widely for pain management training and regional anesthesia. He began practicing pain management and anesthesiology in Austin in 1996, and in May 2002 he founded Austin Pain Associates (www.AustinPainAssociates.com) to further his goal of treating patients suffering from chronic pain syndromes in an interdisciplinary, comprehensive clinic. In addition to Dr. Wills’s expertise in managing and setting up a multimillion-dollar ASC that focuses on pain, he also plays a vital role in the successful start-up and syndication of physician-owned Functional Restoration Programs. Dr. Wills has produced several successful businesses, Many involve real estate ventures he spearheaded personally. He has firsthand experience in the capital requirements necessary to get a start-up off the ground. Dr. Wills has four children and is married. Two of his children are twins. Active in church, he enjoys outdoor family activities and boating.

Dr. Brannon Frank
Principal

Dr. Brannon Frank is Board Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both Pain Management and Anesthesiology. He is a former student of Texas A&M University who received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. Next, he ventured out of Texas to train in both Interventional Pain Management and Anesthesiology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Currently, he devotes his entire practice to improving the quality of life in patients who deal with chronic pain.