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Dick Wright
Senior Partner
Dick Wright is a Senior Partner with over 30 years of health care management experience in a wide variety of organizations. He has operated health maintenance organizations, a leading physician practice management company, hospitals (both domestic and international), insurance companies, a healthcare technology firm, a management consulting firm and a company delivering health services in the field of correctional medicine.
As Senior Partner at Southwind, Dick has led strategic planning initiatives for health system owned physician practices, directed employed physician enterprise assessments for major health systems, and advised senior health system management in the merger and acquisition of community based physician practices. Specific projects that Dick has led on behalf of Southwind clients include:
- The evaluation and acquisition proposal for a major cardiology group (60 physicians) acquisition by a health system in the Mid-Atlantic region;
- The assessment and strategic evaluation of a major health system physician alignment program with over 200 employed physicians in the Midwest;
- Due diligence services for the acquisition of a 50 physician multi-specialty group; and
- Physician employment strategies and implementation plans for:
- a major mid-Atlantic academic medical center;
- a Chicago based health system;
- a multi-hospital health system in the West; and
- a health system on the east coast.
Prior to joining Southwind, Dick was the Vice Chairman of America Service Group and President and Chief Executive Officer of Prison Health Services, a leading provider of managed care services to the correctional healthcare market; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Covation, LLC, a provider of software integration and data management services for healthcare payors, until acquired by Perot Systems; and a co-founder of PhyCor, Inc., where he served as Director and Executive Vice President of Operations over a ten-year period. PhyCor, the pioneering physician practice management firm, grew to 55 multi-specialty clinics with 3,800 physicians in 28 states with $1.2 billion in revenue and paved the way for many of today's health system and other health care firms working with organized physician practices.
Wright has also held senior management roles at HCA International and its group health venture, EquiCor-Equitable HCA Corporation, while living and working in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, England, Brazil and Nashville.
Wright currently serves as the non-Executive Chairman of America Service Group. He holds a Masters of Health Administration from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University. Dick was honored with the Georgia State University Institute of Health Administration Professional Achievement Award in 2006.
