Crisp Regional

What Crisp Regional does

Crisp Regional Health Services is a not-for-profit, community-owned integrated healthcare system headquartered in Cordele, Georgia, founded in 1952 and operating a 73-bed Level 3 Trauma Center hospital that serves more than 120,000 residents across six central Georgia counties (Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Sumter, Worth, and Wilcox). The system operates a broad service portfolio spanning 20+ clinical specialties, including emergency medicine, surgery with Da Vinci robotic and ROSA knee systems, oncology, dialysis, women's health with a Level II NICU, pediatrics, orthopedics, urology with Aquablation Therapy, wound care with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, sleep medicine, gastroenterology, ENT, and anesthesiology, supported by a 3T MRI with AI-assisted imaging, 512-slice CT, PET/CT, and 3D mammography. The network includes eight wholly owned operating subsidiaries: CareSouth Homecare Professionals, Cordele Health and Rehabilitation Center (100 beds), Crisp Regional Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (143 beds), Blackshear Retirement Villas, Reflections Hospice, Crisp Regional Retail Pharmacy, ELITE Therapies rehabilitation, and Crisp Regional EMS (sole provider for Crisp County covering 281 square miles).

Crisp Regional generates revenue primarily through fee-for-service healthcare delivery billed to Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance, augmented by indigent and charity care. The system is the sole Emergency Medical Services provider for Crisp County under contract with the County Board of Commissioners, handles approximately 22,000 emergency department visits, nearly 3,000 surgeries, 300+ births, and 7,500+ EMS calls annually. Go-to-market is community-based rather than paid-marketing driven: physician recruitment (with loan repayment, sign-on bonuses, and relocation support) drives specialist acquisition, the Mercer University School of Medicine teaching hospital affiliation provides medical resident pipeline, and partnerships with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center, and Moffitt Cancer Center extend clinical capabilities via referral and telehealth. The system's growth investments in 2024-2025 include a new Surgery Center, AI-assisted MRI upgrade, Aquablation Therapy launch, and 3D mammography expansion, supported by participation in the Georgia HEART Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program and a 2022 $1M USDA grant.

Customer segments span residents of the six-county catchment, emergency and trauma patients, women and mothers, children and adolescents, seniors and elderly requiring long-term or hospice care, and local employers using occupational medicine. Customer concentration risk is Low at the named-customer level given the long-tail individual patient base, but geographic and payer-mix concentration is material. The system is governed by a community Board of Directors chaired by Dr. Sule Salami with Steven L. Gautney serving as President and CEO. No parent company, private equity backing, or public listing is disclosed.

Name

Crisp Regional

Legal name

Crisp Regional Hospital, Inc.

Website

https://crispregional.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1952

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Not-for-profit regional healthcare system headquartered in Cordele, Georgia, operating a 73-bed Level 3 Trauma Center and integrated network of specialty clinics, skilled nursing, hospice, home health, and retail pharmacy facilities serving 120,000+ residents across six central Georgia counties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Hospital Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (622110), Ambulance Services (62191), Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers (621493)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Skilled Nursing Care Facilities (8051), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Critical Access & Rural Hospitals (HLAFAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Trauma Centers & Level I–IV Trauma Hospitals (HLAFAAAK), Emergency Medical Services (EMS) & Ambulance Services (BPAIAGAC)

Keywords

• Acute care hospital
• Rural healthcare services
• Emergency medical services
• Outpatient specialty care
• Home health hospice

Headquarters

HQ city

Cordele

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices24 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: Crisp Regional Health Services generates revenue through providing comprehensive healthcare services including hospital care, outpatient services, emergency medicine, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, surgical procedures, dialysis, rehabilitation, hospice, home health care, and retail pharmacy. Services are billed to patients with insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance) and include indigent/charity care for qualified patients.
2. Georgia HEART Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program: As a rural hospital, Crisp Regional participates in the Georgia HEART (Helping Enhance Access to Rural Treatment) program, which provides tax credits to donors contributing to rural hospitals, enabling community donations to support hospital operations and expansion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crisp Regional Health Services operates a 73-bed Level 3 Trauma Center hospital in Cordele, Georgia, delivering comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, emergency, surgical, diagnostic, rehabilitation, long-term care, hospice, and home health services. The system serves more than 120,000 people across Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Sumter, Worth, and Wilcox counties in central Georgia through a network of owned facilities, specialty clinics, nursing homes, home health, and EMS.

Product overview

Crisp Regional Health Services is a regional healthcare system anchored by a 73-bed Level 3 Trauma Center hospital in Cordele, Georgia, serving Crisp County and Central Georgia. The system operates as a unified network of clinical services and facilities, with the hospital serving as the core facility connected to specialized care centers. The portfolio includes acute care (Emergency Medicine, Surgery Center with Da Vinci robotics, Hospitalist Program), diagnostic services (Medical Imaging/Radiology with MRI, CT, PET/CT, mammography; Laboratory Services), chronic disease management (Cancer/Oncology, Nephrology, Dialysis, Cardiac Rehabilitation), specialty surgical centers (Orthopedics with ROSA robotic knee system, Wound Care Center with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Urology with Aquablation therapy), maternal/infant care (Women's Center with Level II NICU, Pediatrics), and post-acute/long-term services (Reflections Hospice, CareSouth Homecare, Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers, Blackshear Retirement Villas). Digital health infrastructure includes a Patient Portal and MyCrisp App for patient access to records, alongside Telemedicine services including the KidsABC pediatric telehealth initiative. The system also operates supporting facilities including a Retail Pharmacy and Aesthetics & Wellness clinic.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CareSouth Homecare Professionals: Home health care services providing skilled care to homebound patients including nursing, therapy, and medical social work services.
• Reflections Hospice
• Crisp Aesthetics & Wellness
• ELITE Therapies

Quantifiable outcome

• 14-17% reduction in hospital length of stay for patients under hospitalist care
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kids Alliance for Better Care (KidsABC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2024Collaboration between Mercer University School of Medicine and its Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center, supported by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The initiative provides rural pediatricians with physician-to-physician telehealth support, subspecialty consultation access, and continuing medical education training to address Georgia's rural healthcare gaps. Crisp Regional participates in the KidsABC program to improve access to quality pediatric care for children in the region.
• Mercer UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMercer University School of Medicine partnership makes Crisp Regional a teaching hospital, enabling medical residents training opportunities and ensuring access to medical education and expertise. This affiliation supports the Kids Alliance for Better Care initiative and provides ongoing medical education resources.
• Georgia Rural Health Innovation CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through Kids Alliance for Better Care initiative, focused on expanding telehealth support and subspecialty consultation access to rural Georgia pediatric and family medicine practices across 35 counties.
• Children's Healthcare of AtlantacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting partner of Kids Alliance for Better Care initiative, providing pediatric expertise and subspecialty consultation support to rural healthcare providers including Crisp Regional.
• Georgia Association of Home Health CareminorOthersCaresouth, an affiliate of Crisp Regional Hospital, holds membership in the Georgia Association of Home Health Care, an industry association supporting home health providers in the state.
• Moffitt Cancer CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for complex cancer cases requiring stem cell transplantation and advanced oncology treatments not available at Crisp Regional. Patients receive treatment at Moffitt and return to Crisp Regional for follow-up care.
• American College of RadiologyminorOthersMedical imaging services accreditation through ACR for imaging quality and safety standards compliance.
• Accreditation Commission for Healthcare (ACHC)minorOthersSleep Center accreditation body providing national standards certification for sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment services.

Scale indicators28 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Dorminy Medical Center: Dorminy Medical Center is a rural Georgia critical-access hospital serving Ben Hill and adjacent counties with comparable scope of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient services.
• Encompass Health: Encompass Health operates inpatient rehabilitation and home health services across the Southeast; comparable to Crisp's ELITE Therapies rehab and CareSouth home health segments.
• Tift Regional Medical Center: Tift Regional is a similarly-sized South Georgia regional health system anchored by a community hospital, providing comparable acute care, outpatient specialty, and physician recruitment across a rural Georgia catchment.
• Phoebe Sumter Medical Center: Phoebe Sumter is a regional hospital serving Americus and surrounding rural Georgia counties under the Phoebe Health system, operating with a comparable mix of inpatient, ED, outpatient specialty, and physician network model.
• Colquitt Regional Medical Center: Colquitt Regional is a South Georgia community hospital providing acute care, surgical, and specialty outpatient services to surrounding rural counties, structurally similar to Crisp Regional's footprint.

Broad incumbents

• HCA Healthcare: HCA is a national for-profit hospital operator with broad portfolio that includes competing facilities in Georgia and adjacencies; not a direct rural peer but a scaling/template reference for community hospital operations.
• Community Health Systems: CYH is a major operator of non-urban and mid-sized community hospitals across the Southeast, representing a structural comparable on rural hospital economics and the pressures rural systems face.
• Atrium Health Navicent: Atrium Health Navicent is a regional referral hub based in Macon, GA that absorbs complex cases from rural systems like Crisp Regional, including the oncology referrals referenced in Crisp's own data.

Emerging players

• Amedisys: Amedisys is a national home health and hospice operator that competes for the same post-acute patient population Crisp Regional serves via CareSouth and Reflections Hospice in central Georgia.

Regional players

• South Georgia Medical Center: SGMC is a larger South Georgia community health system anchored by a Valdosta-based hospital; it competes for some of Crisp's referral-eligible cases and represents the next-tier regional comparison.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance18 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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