Regal healthcare is a control growth equity and buyout firm that specializes in the smaller end of lower middle-market healthcare services companies.

Two-Sided Value

Regal combines the complementary operational and financial backgrounds of serial entrepreneur and process engineer Dr. David Kim and healthcare M&A and finance expert Jon Santemma, and enhances both with its diverse team of investment professionals, subject matter experts, and advisors

Healthcare Services Focus

Regal targets multi-site and/or provider-led businesses, in the strategically niche ‘small end’ of the lower middle market, that typically demonstrate low exposure to reimbursement risk, deliver high-quality and cost-efficient care, and benefit from strong demand dynamics and high-scalability

Strong Track Record

Regal has supported many diverse, early-stage, and visionary healthcare services entrepreneurs to improve, grow, and scale their businesses; treating more patients, more impactfully, across more touchpoints of care delivery

David Kim, MD, MBA
Co-Founder and General Partner

“I truly believe that ‘walking the walk’ matters more than ‘talking the talk.’”

Dr. Kim’s success in starting, growing, and selling companies to private equity brings a unique insight to Regal, making it a unique and value resource for other healthcare entrepreneurs.

• Board certified attending physician for the North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital System (“Northwell”)

• Co-Founder of Premier Care Urgent Care; Dental365; Progressive Emergency Physicians

• Residency in Emergency Medicine (1999-2003)

• M.D., College of Medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn

• M.B.A., Columbia University Business School

• B.S., Columbia University…

“As a physician-entrepreneur myself who’s gone through a private equity sale process three times, I’ve found that picking the right partner can be a daunting task.

But as I learned more about private equity it became clearer that not all firms were created equal; some were just more specialized, more healthcare-centric, and more committed to clinical quality than others.

So, when Jon and I started Regal, we set out to build a team of professionals who have also spent their careers in healthcare and who shared our passion of lending clinical, operational, and financial expertise to leading healthcare entrepreneurs.

A team that puts patients first.

A team that understands physicians.

A team that prioritizes clinical quality.

Because whether as a doctor, an operator, or an investor, I truly believe that ‘walking the walk’ matters more than ‘talking the talk.’”

David Kim, MD, MBA
Co-Founder and General Partner of Regal Healthcare Capital Partners

Jon Santemma, JD, MBA
Co-Founder and General Partner

“We started Regal with the vision of creating a different type of private equity firm…”

Mr. Santemma’s transactional and financial expertise, combined with his long tenure as a trusted advisor to some of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies, provides an unparalleled skill set to Regal’s entrepreneurial partners.

• Global Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, Jeffries (2009-2018)

• Healthcare Services, UBS Investment Bank (1999-2009)

• Sr. Investment Banker, Citigroup / Salomon Smith Barney (1995-1999)

•J.D. / M.B.A., Fordham University

•B.A., Hamilton College…

“Over my 20+ years as an advisor and banker to healthcare companies — guiding them through expansion, partnering with private equity, raising debt, completing mergers and acquisitions, and selling — I always found the common factor to success was their stalwart commitment to creating value by providing better care to more patients.

These entrepreneurs did well by doing good, and Dr. Kim was a standout.

Dave and I perfectly complement each other: his entrepreneurial instinct, operational skills, and medical expertise, coupled with my healthcare-focused transactional and financial experience, enabled us to provide best-in-class advice and support.

So, we started Regal with the vision of creating a different type of private equity firm:

A firm backed by doctors and healthcare providers.

A firm where unsurpassed clinical care and patient experience was at the heart of every business decision.

And being different by design, Dave and myself and the entire Regal team have achieved successful investment relationships that are different too.”

Jon Santemma, JD, MBA
Co-Founder and General Partner of Regal Healthcare Capital Partners

Regal is a private equity fund exclusively focused on healthcare services.

We partner with leading entrepreneurs in fragmented sectors of healthcare where we believe we can provide a combination of operational expertise and financial backing to accelerate growth.

Revenue

• $20M - $100M
• High Clinical Quality and Patient Focus
• Experienced Senior Management Team
• Regional Leader

EBITDA

• $2M - $10M
• Strong Industry Dynamics
• Fragmented Markets
• Management Alignment

Our strategy is to create value by helping companies develop models that deliver efficient, patient focused, quality care with aligned providers, enhancing access to care.

Improve the Process of Delivering Care

• Use data analytics to process engineer best in class operational performance

• Track key business KPIs and create powerful management dashboards for real time reporting

• Drive new clinic location decision making with multi factorial analytics

• Use predictive AI to calculate forward volumes and efficiently staff operations

• Constantly seek out inefficiencies and waste - take corrective action

Create Provider Alignment

• Providers are the critical drivers of our businesses

• Create a provider focused culture through clinical leadership in the C-Suite, clinical review committees and bespoke training programs

• Implement efficient operating models so providers can focus on delivering quality care, enhance productivity with less stress, and achieve higher career satisfaction

• Align provider incentives so providers do better when they see more patients

Drive Patient Satisfaction

• Focus on, track and consistently improve what matters to the patient: appointment on-time starts; door to provider time, total visit time, call center performance metrics

• Provide same day next day appointments, extended and weekend hours.

• Implement state of the art patient communication technology (i.e. online scheduling, text reminders, online check- in, etc.)

• Track patient Net Promoter scores and use it to incentivize staff and providers, creating a virtuous circle.

Mission

To help healthcare entrepreneurs grow their business so that they can provide the highest quality, patient-centric care to patients, while also creating value for all stakeholders.