New Healthcare Property Firm Instant Leader
A pair of real estate veterans have formed a Nashville-based health care development, construction and management firm that - with more than 200 facilities, primarily in the Northeast and Midwest - already ranks as one of the biggest in its field.
Formed in the last two months by Principals Bond Oman and Tom Gibson, Oman-Gibson Associates focuses on construction and facility management services. The company works with health care companies on land purchase and development, market feasibility studies, architectural and engineering services and project financing.
Oman is CEO of the new venture. He has built 16 medical office buildings and Nashville's Balleroy residential development. Gibson, president of the new company, also is senior vice president at the Nashville office of Holladay Properties.
The two built the company's portfolio over the past two years until they were comfortable forming Oman-Gibson, which still shares accounting services with South Bend, Ind.-based Holladay. Oman-Gibson employs 15.
By providing facility management services to dialysis clinics and medical offices, Oman-Gibson allows clients to spend time on their core business of providing health care, says Oman.
The company has opened a call center in Greenville, S.C., that takes tenants' calls about problems with their facilities and routes them to the appropriate vendor for repair. Because these centers also can access the tenant's lease agreements, it creates what Oman calls "checks and balances" by preventing the tenant from paying for repair work that's the responsibility of the landlord.
"By outsourcing, they achieve lower costs, higher efficiency and a substantially higher level of customer service," says Gibson.
In Tennessee, Oman-Gibson, which also maintains satellite offices in Atlanta and Hartford, Conn., is providing facility management for two free-standing dialysis clinics in Memphis.
For project management, the company allows its clients to check on the status of projects, obtain recent photos of sites and view budget vs. actual expenditure information.
"What we've tried to do is bring technology and an integrated management process to the table," Gibson says.
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