{"id":183,"date":"2009-06-06T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advancedpracticemanagementblog.wordpress.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:54:45","slug":"is-midwest-dental-a-viable-transition-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/is-midwest-dental-a-viable-transition-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Midwest Dental a viable transition option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most often, when you think of multi-location group practices, \u201cMetro\u201d and \u201cPark\u201d come to mind. However, Metro and Park have now combined (as American Dental Partners affiliates) and have 57 practices. Midwest Dental, out of Mondovi, Wisconsin has 67 practices (42 in Wisconsin, 10 in Minnesota, 9 in Illinois, 4 in Iowa and 2 in Colorado).<\/p>\n<p>I recently talked to Sean Epp, the Managing Director of Development* for Midwest. Midwest Dental\u2019s business model is different than the other conglomerates because it\u2019s based largely on one- and two-man practices. They see their model as a traditional practice.<\/p>\n<p>For some dentists, Midwest Dental can be a viable transition option. They often employ the selling Doctor so it\u2019s a possibility if you want to sell your practice but still would like to work for a while. Since the big merger a while back there hasn\u2019t been a lot of news out of Park and Metro Dental. They still maintain separate websites. At one time I thought we\u2019d see a diaspora of Doctors and patients but we haven\u2019t seen that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019til next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Sean Epp at www.Midwest-Dental.com<br \/>\nPosted by Bill Rossi at 8:49 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most often, when you think of multi-location group practices, \u201cMetro\u201d and \u201cPark\u201d come to mind. However, Metro and Park have now combined (as American Dental Partners affiliates) and have 57 practices. Midwest Dental, out of Mondovi, Wisconsin has 67 practices (42 in Wisconsin, 10 in Minnesota, 9 in Illinois, 4 in Iowa and 2 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-practice-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}