What DVMA LLC does

DVMA LLC (Desert Valley Medical Associates) is a physician-owned, Arizona-based integrated healthcare delivery network founded in 2005 and headquartered in Peoria, Arizona. The company provides hospitalist and post-acute care services in the West Valley Phoenix market, fielding a team of 40+ physicians who deliver inpatient internal medicine care at four Abrazo Health campuses (Arrowhead, Central, Scottsdale, and Heart Hospital) and continuity-of-care coverage across skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation, long-term care hospitals, and home health transitions.

The company's core product set is organized into three service lines: Acute Care (hospitalist physician staffing at partner acute hospitals), Post-Acute Care (rehabilitation and recovery services delivered in SNF, IRF, and LTCH settings), and Follow-Up Services (post-discharge coordination with primary care physicians). There is no proprietary software platform, mobile application, API, or integration layer disclosed; the offering is fundamentally a physician services organization whose 'technology' is its coordinated care model and embedded presence inside partner facilities, supported by a content-marketing blog for patient education.

DVMA monetizes through hospitalist services billed to insurance plans under fee-for-service or value-based contractual arrangements with hospital partners and health plans. Its go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting acute care hospitals, post-acute facilities, community physicians, and health plans in the Phoenix metro. Customer concentration is high, with all disclosed named customers belonging to the Abrazo Health system, and the company is privately held with no disclosed funding, M&A activity, or external investors.

Name

DVMA LLC

Legal name

Desert Valley Medical Associates

Website

https://desertvalleymedicalassociates.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Short description

DVMA LLC (Desert Valley Medical Associates) is a physician-owned Arizona hospitalist group, founded in 2005, providing acute care, post-acute, and follow-up services across four Abrazo Health campuses and partner post-acute facilities in the West Valley Phoenix market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Peoria

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hospitalist Services: Physician staffing and hospitalist services provided to acute care hospitals, generating revenue through fee-for-service or value-based contractual arrangements with hospital partners and health plans.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

DVMA LLC is a physician-owned medical group that provides hospitalist and post-acute care services across multiple Abrazo hospitals and affiliated facilities in the West Valley Phoenix area. The group staffs acute inpatient coverage, manages transitions of care to skilled nursing and post-acute settings, and operates follow-up clinics that coordinate with community primary care physicians. With 40+ clinicians, DVMA delivers continuous 24/7 inpatient medicine and care coordination for hospitals, post-acute operators, and patients in the Phoenix region.

Product overview

DVMA LLC (Desert Valley Medical Associates) is a primary care-driven integrated healthcare delivery network providing hospitalist and post-acute care services. The company operates as a single unified offering centered on physician-led hospital medicine, with two main service lines: Acute Care (inpatient hospital physician services) and Post Acute Care (rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility services). These services are coordinated through their hospitalist team and include follow-up care to ensure continuity from hospital to home.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Acute Care Hospitalist Services Inpatient hospitalist coverage delivered by DVMA physicians and advanced practice providers at Abrazo hospitals in the West Valley Phoenix market. The service includes admission management, daily rounding, discharge planning, and coordination with primary care physicians, serving hospitalized adult patients and the hospitals that contract for the coverage.
• Post-Acute and Skilled Nursing Facility Care Physician services delivered in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and other post-acute facilities to manage sub-acute, transitional, and long-term care patients. The offering supports facility admissions from partner hospitals, manages clinical documentation, and works to reduce rehospitalizations, serving post-acute facility operators and their resident patients.
• Outpatient Follow-Up Clinic Post-discharge and follow-up clinic visits for patients recently discharged from the hospital or post-acute setting, designed to bridge the transition back to community primary care. The clinic serves patients of DVMA's hospitalist and post-acute service lines in the West Valley Phoenix area.

Quantifiable outcome

• Lower hospital readmission rates for patients receiving post-acute care
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Abrazo Arrowhead CampuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDVMA provides hospitalist services at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, one of the major acute care hospitals in the West Valley Phoenix area. DVMA physicians manage adult patients admitted under their care and communicate with the patient's primary care doctor.
• Abrazo Central CampuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDVMA provides hospitalist services at Abrazo Central Campus in Phoenix, delivering acute care services and coordinating with community physicians for patient care continuity.
• Abrazo Scottsdale CampuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDVMA provides hospitalist services at Abrazo Scottsdale Campus, extending their acute care reach to the Scottsdale area of the Phoenix metropolitan region.
• Abrazo Heart HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDVMA provides hospitalist services at Abrazo Heart Hospital, a cardiac specialty hospital, offering internal medicine consultation for patients with heart-related conditions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Envision Healthcare: Large national provider of physician staffing including hospitalist services, alongside a much broader portfolio of emergency, anesthesiology, and ambulatory services — overlapping capability in hospital medicine but operating at significantly greater scale and scope than DVMA.

Direct peers

• PhyMed Healthcare Group: Physician services organization delivering hospitalist, anesthesia, and post-acute care — directly comparable acute and post-acute service mix to DVMA's offering.
• Apogee Physicians: National hospitalist group focused exclusively on inpatient physician staffing at acute care hospitals — directly comparable core offering to DVMA's hospitalist services.
• Adfinitas Health: Physician group providing hospitalist and post-acute care services across the Mid-Atlantic and beyond — directly comparable in delivering both acute hospitalist coverage and post-acute care transitions like DVMA.
• Sound Physicians: One of the largest national hospitalist and post-acute care groups in the U.S., providing physician services to acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities — a directly comparable operating model to DVMA's acute and post-acute service lines.
• TeamHealth: Major healthcare staffing organization with a substantial hospitalist division that places physicians in acute care hospitals — directly comparable to DVMA's core hospitalist service offering at acute care hospitals.
• HNI Healthcare: Technology-enabled hospitalist and post-acute care provider serving community hospitals — directly comparable in core hospitalist service model and post-acute care focus to DVMA.
• SCP Health: National physician services company delivering hospitalist, emergency, and post-acute care staffing — a directly comparable model to DVMA's integrated acute and post-acute delivery.
• Eagle Hospital Physicians: Regional and national hospitalist management group providing inpatient physician staffing and post-acute programs — directly comparable core service model to DVMA's hospitalist and post-acute business.
• US Acute Care Solutions (USACS): Physician-owned national group providing hospitalist, emergency medicine, and post-acute services to hospitals — directly comparable in service mix and physician-ownership structure to DVMA.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about DVMA LLC