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HEALTHCARE PRIVATE EQUITY
ZT Corporate’s investments in healthcare are built on the idea of physician empowerment and community healthcare. It is part of our core philosophy to operate our healthcare facilities in an efficient manner, enabling physicians to focus on taking excellent care of patients. This allows us to eliminate the frustrating inefficiencies of traditional healthcare systems and stay true to our goal of providing Texans with high-quality healthcare.
Why Healthcare?
Our ever-growing venture into healthcare private equity stems from our commitment to investments typically not affected by stock market movement. The healthcare industry has always been a central part of the economy, easily surpassing other private equity investment sectors. The increasing demand for healthcare and the dynamic nature of the industry provides limitless opportunities for investors. Consequently, healthcare acquisitions have become a popular private equity opportunity for investment firms around the United States. Our healthcare origins began with one imaging company and vastly expanded into a network of specialized healthcare systems.
- Acquire – ZT Corporate acquires healthcare companies with our investors in mind, only looking for opportunities with the highest potential ROI. Acquisitions that will bolster our client portfolios are handled by our experienced private equity team.
- Professionalize – The existing processes of our healthcare investments are examined from start to finish by our strategic partners. Their observations are used for streamlining, improving, and perfecting new processes that support minimum overhead costs and maximum financial returns.
- Scale – Supporting and facilitating the unimpaired growth of our investments is ZT Corporate’s top priority. We determine the optimal way to scale these businesses and focus on preparing our new acquisitions to thrive. This provides ample payoff for our investors and is our reward for a job well done.
- Exit – Knowing the right time to relinquish your holdings in a company is a key part of private equity strategy. ZT Corporate’s ability to exit an investment at the perfect time, while paying special attention to the interests and returns of our partners, is what distinguishes us in the private equity industry.
Our Portfolio
Our clients can have confidence knowing that when they invest with our healthcare portfolios, they will benefit from an industry poised for growth. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have refined our portfolio and narrowed our focus into areas that turn a profit. Throughout Texas, our vast portfolio includes three hospitals, six outpatient emergency centers, and three freestanding emergency centers.
Our Origins
ZT Corporate Chairman and CEO Taseer Badar grew up around healthcare professionals, and this close relationship with members of the medical community played a role in his eventual decision to incorporate Altus Community Healthcare into the ZT Corporate family of entities. When Taseer created ZT, he was determined to find investment opportunities and wealth management approaches outside of the traditional marketplace. He wanted to be innovative while securing a higher level of control and ownership.
What began as a retail brokerage firm, offering asset management services to physicians needing help investing their money, has since broadened to include several inclusive and specialized categories. He focused his investments on areas that would not only provide exponential growth for the company but also provide essential services to the communities. Healthcare private equity offered all of this and more.
2003
- Taseer Badar founded Altus Community Healthcare in Houston, TX on the core principle of “Empowering Physicians”
2005
- Altus Community Healthcare opened its first facility in Houston; initial operations consisted of an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC), imaging centers, and sleep labs
2007
- Altus Beaumont Center began operations in Beaumont, Texas
2009
- Altus Baytown Center began operations in Baytown, Texas
- Altus Community Healthcare launched its Post-Acute Platform (Hospice & Home Health)
2012
- Altus Community Healthcare partnered with a management team to begin Altus Infusion
2013
- Altus Community Healthcare launched its retail healthcare delivery model for freestanding emergency rooms with Altus Emergency Centers starting with 2 locations
2014
- Altus Baytown Center was converted into a surgical hospital (Altus Baytown Hospital)
- Altus Emergency Centers expanded into multiple markets
2017
- Altus Houston Center was converted into a surgical hospital, Altus Houston Hospital
2018
- Altus Infusion exited
- Acquired six Neighbors Emergency Centers
2019
- Transitioned business model from an Out-of-Network (OON) platform to an In-Network (INN) platform
- Altus Hospice and Home Health exited
2020
- Invested in capital pine, capital peak capital healthcare, a group of surgical centers in Texas
- Identified and negotiated the acquisition of multiple freestanding emergency rooms in Texas
