Integration Health Unites Specialized Services on One Platform

Key Points:

• A Unified Platform: Integration Health was recently established as a platform company to bring established, specialized services like ECMO and perfusion under one roof.
• Solving the Access Problem: The company’s main goal is to solve the access problem, making it possible for more communities to offer life-saving cardiovascular care.
• A Simpler Partnership: Their model simplifies operations by acting as a single partner, helping to manage the complexity, staffing, and operational risks involved in these advanced programs.
• Proven Real-World Impact: Integration Health already serves over 50 facilities across 21 states.

Imagine a local hospital trying to offer the most advanced, life-saving care possible. For certain emergencies, like a severe heart attack or catastrophic lung failure from COVID-19, they need incredibly specialized technology and staff. In the past, this meant juggling multiple companies, different contracts, and complex logistics just to get one program running. It was a massive headache that often ended with the hospital deciding it just wasn’t possible.

Integration Health, which recently launched as a platform company bringing together several existing companies, is working to permanently fix that. They’re not inventing a new machine, they’re creating a better, more sustainable system. By bringing several critical services that were already operating successfully under one roof, they’re making it easier for hospitals everywhere to offer the kind of care that truly saves lives.

The Heart of the Problem: Access

Running an ECMO program requires a dedicated team of highly trained specialists available 24/7, expensive and complex equipment, and very specific protocols. For many hospitals, the financial investment and operational strain are just too high. While this technology has been around for decades, this complexity means most facilities simply don’t offer it.

This creates a tragic access problem. Currently, less than 5% of patients who could benefit from ECMO actually receive it. Patients who could be saved by ECMO often don’t get the chance simply because their local hospital can’t build, coordinate, or maintain the staff expertise for such a demanding, multidisciplinary program. With such a massive gap in availability, increasing access to ECMO could directly translate to thousands more lives saved.

There’s also the challenge of maintaining expertise. ECMO volume can be highly unpredictable and vary dramatically between hospitals. This makes it nearly impossible for all but the busiest facilities to maintain skilled teams available 24/7 while keeping their competency current. Most hospitals simply don’t see enough cases annually to keep a large team of providers trained and ready for round-the-clock coverage.

A similar issue exists for advanced perfusion services that could dramatically improve the success rates of organ transplants. These specialized services require expert perfusionists who can manage complex equipment during cardiac surgery and organ preservation procedures, however, the expertise required means that many hospitals struggle to maintain coverage.

A Comprehensive Solution

Integration Health addresses these challenges through a strategic approach that tackles each barrier to access:

• Solving the Complexity and Cost Problem Instead of hospitals struggling to piece everything together, Integration Health now provides a single partner for all their needs. This includes ECMO through its specialized service line Innovative ECMO Concepts (IEC), as well as perfusion and Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) services that help maximize organ viability for transplants.
• Solving the Expertise and Volume Challenge Integration Health solves the competency challenge by bringing skilled providers directly to patients in need. Their teams stay busy performing ECMO procedures across the country—often doing more cases in a month than some hospital teams handle in an entire year. This constant practice keeps their skills sharp and expertise current.

The key benefit is expertise where and when it’s needed most—Integration Health doesn’t eliminate the complexity of these technologies, but brings specialized teams to manage it so hospitals can confidently offer life-saving services to their communities without the typical operational headaches that prevent many facilities from even attempting these programs.

This means a hospital can now say “yes” to offering advanced care that was previously out of reach. They no longer have to worry about staffing gaps on a holiday weekend or a critical equipment failure in the middle of the night. Integration Health manages that, giving more people in more communities a fighting chance.

A Strategic Vision for Growth

The launch of Integration Health isn’t just a new logo on a building. It’s a strategic move to bring well-known, trusted services together into one clear, flexible platform. The platform company consolidates several existing recognized brands under one umbrella, including Innovative ECMO Concepts (IEC), a recognized leader in the field that has established recognition in its market. IEC will keep its name and specialized focus, but now it’s part of a larger, more connected system that benefits both the hospital and the patient.

According to CEO John Martin, this new structure represents the “natural evolution” of the company’s mission. It provides enhanced clarity for hospital partners, who now have one relationship to manage for a full spectrum of services. This streamlined model is also built to scale, with room to grow into new clinical areas without confusing brand changes. It’s a forward-thinking approach designed for long-term, sustainable partnerships.

Making a Measurable Impact

This strategic platform approach leverages an already proven model that is currently working. Integration Health is currently partnered with over 50 facilities across 21 states. Their teams provide more than 200,000 hours of hands-on, bedside care every year. They also help build up local hospital teams by training over 1,000 providers annually, strengthening healthcare from within.

These aren’t just numbers, they represent thousands of patients who now have access to life-saving technology that was completely unavailable in their towns before. It’s a real-world solution that is closing a critical gap in healthcare and already having a massive impact on families and communities across the country.