![]() In addition, the expansion has brought an increase in resources and economy of scale, in that large costs are now shared across a larger group. And the Wills training and research programs are much easier to run with all of us on the same page. With more locations, there are more possibilities to bring in new associates and get them busy as quickly as possible. We have better coverage for vacations, meeting attendance, and the like. The combination of our practices brings a number of advantages. It makes much more sense to be cooperative across the board. Clearly, there are inefficiencies in being competitors in one venue and colleagues and cooperative professionals in another. Even though we had been competitors in private practice in the community, we had all been long-time colleagues, working closely in a cooperative way at Wills. ![]() Realizing that this might be a once-in-a-career opportunity to both increase the size of Mid Atlantic Retina and make the retina service at Wills more unified, we decided to go for it. We had talked many times over the past 20 years about the possibility of joining forces, but the stars had previously not aligned the way they did about 18 months ago when this process was set in motion. Fortunately, as they were coming to this realization, leases were coming up for renewal, so the timing was good and provided the flexibility to enable their move. The nine Wills surgeons who joined Mid Atlantic Retina this year had decided for various reasons that they wanted to pull away from their multisubspecialty practices and work in a single-subspecialty retina practice. We believe this "growth spurt" will allow us to continue to provide high-quality care as before, while improving other aspects of our practice. ![]() This undertaking, which took the better part of a year to bring to fruition, makes the practice stronger and also improves the coordination of the research and training programs being conducted at Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia. The 19 surgeons now serve the greater Philadelphia community at 12 locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. On January 1 of this year we brought onboard nine surgeons who were formerly part of two multisubspecialty practices. In 2008, we had 10 surgeons and seven locations. Our Philadelphia-area retina subspecialty practice, Mid Atlantic Retina, recently underwent a major expansion, almost doubling in size. ![]()
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