For Urgent Care Owners & Operators
Whether you're planning for retirement, seeking liquidity, or simply ready for the next chapter — CRH Healthcare is the most experienced acquirer of urgent care operators in the Southeast. This is a conversation between peers, not a sales pitch.
Why CRH Healthcare
CRH doesn't acquire centers to restructure them and move on. We build lasting regional brands with the clinical depth, local reputation, and operational infrastructure to carry your work forward — the right way.
17 completed acquisitions across Georgia, Maryland, and Florida. We've navigated the full spectrum — single-site owners, multi-center groups, retiring providers, and investors seeking liquidity. We know how to close.
Every center we've acquired was built by people who showed up every day and earned patient trust. We make it a priority to retain your team — providers, MAs, front desk staff — and we have the depth to backfill any role, including a retiring owner-provider.
We understand the sensitivity of exploring a sale — with staff, patients, competitors, and referral partners. Every conversation with CRH is treated as strictly confidential, from first contact through close.
We don't lowball operators with algorithmic offers. We take the time to understand your center's actual performance, patient relationships, and market position — and structure deals that reflect the real value of what you've created.
Some sellers are ready to close in 90 days. Others need 18 months to prepare. We're experienced enough to move fast when it matters and patient enough to let the process unfold on your terms.
CRH is a Southeast-focused platform. We're not a national PE roll-up managing centers from a distant office. Our leadership is local, our brands are community-facing, and we're accountable to the markets we serve.
Who We Work With
We've completed acquisitions across a wide range of seller profiles. There's no single profile that "qualifies." If you've built a center with real patient volume and a committed team, we want to hear from you.
You've been practicing for 20+ years and are ready to step back. You want your patients taken care of and your staff kept on. We can backfill your clinical role and ensure a seamless transition for everyone.
You built one or more centers from scratch and created real enterprise value. Now you're looking to monetize that work, reduce operational risk, or free up capital for other ventures.
You operate two to ten centers and have built a regional brand. You want a partner with the scale, capital, and operational expertise to carry the platform to its next stage.
You're a physician practice that has evolved into urgent care and want to exit cleanly — preserving patient relationships while moving on to other priorities in your career or personal life.
The Acquisition Process
We've done this 17 times. The process is deliberate, confidential, and designed to protect you at every stage.
You speak directly with our CEO or Chief Corporate Development Officer — no intermediaries. We learn about your situation, your centers, and what you're looking for. No pressure. No NDA required at this stage.
If there's mutual interest, we execute a mutual non-disclosure agreement and you share basic operating data — visit volume, payer mix, staffing, lease structure. This allows us to develop a preliminary view of value without a full due diligence burden on your team.
Based on preliminary data, CRH presents a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with a proposed valuation range, deal structure, and key terms. We explain the rationale behind our offer — we don't present black-box numbers.
With an agreed LOI, we move into formal due diligence — financial, operational, clinical, legal, and real estate review. We minimize burden on your staff with a structured, efficient process refined across 17 transactions.
Definitive purchase agreement, regulatory notifications, staff communication, and operational onboarding. Our dedicated integration team manages the transition so you're not managing two full-time jobs simultaneously.
Our commitment to you
"We don't buy centers to flip them. We acquire them to make them permanent pillars of their communities — with the same staff, the same culture, and better resources."CRH Healthcare Leadership
Frequently Asked Questions
We've had hundreds of conversations with urgent care owners over the years. These are the questions that come up most often.
Urgent care valuations are typically expressed as a multiple of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) — though the specific multiple depends on a range of factors including visit volume, payer mix, market positioning, facility quality, lease terms, and staff stability.
CRH's approach is to look at your center holistically — not just the trailing twelve months of financials. We consider growth trajectory, local market dynamics, your patient base, and the strength of your team. We present a clear valuation methodology so you understand exactly how we arrived at our number, and we're happy to discuss it in detail.
Staff retention is one of our highest priorities in every acquisition. Your team is a major part of what makes your center work — they know the patients, they've built the culture, and they're why people keep coming back.
In practice, this means we evaluate staffing needs thoughtfully, offer competitive compensation within our existing pay structures, and transition employees onto CRH's benefits platform — which typically includes stronger health coverage, 401(k) access, and professional development resources than many independent operators can offer. We develop a specific staff retention plan before close, not as an afterthought.
Yes. CRH operates a robust provider recruitment infrastructure across all three of our markets. We have experience backfilling retiring or departing owner-providers with a combination of full-time physicians, APPs (nurse practitioners and physician assistants), and, where appropriate, part-time coverage while we recruit.
We work through your clinical transition plan collaboratively — including timing of your departure, any overlap period if you want to stay on temporarily, and how we'll communicate the change to patients.
Not necessarily. We evaluate each situation individually. Centers that are operationally sound but not yet profitable — due to a ramp period, a recent new-center opening, or cost structures that CRH can improve through scale — can still be strong acquisition candidates.
We're primarily interested in real patient volume, a stable or growing market, a committed team, and a facility that meets our clinical and regulatory standards. Profitability matters, but it's not the only lens we use.
For a single-site or small group transaction where both parties are ready to move, we can execute in as little as 90 to 120 days from LOI to close. For more complex multi-site transactions, or when the seller needs more time to prepare, six or more months may be required or desired.
We work at your pace. If you're not ready to sell for 18 months, we'd rather begin a relationship now and earn your trust over time than pressure you into a timeline that doesn't work for your life.
No. Many of our most successful acquisitions have been direct transactions with no broker involved — which saves the seller meaningful transaction costs (typically 3–6% of deal value paid to their advisor).
That said, if you've already engaged a broker or investment banker, we're entirely comfortable working through them. We always recommend that sellers have their own legal counsel review any definitive agreement — that's simply good practice regardless of how much you trust the buyer.
CRH currently operates in Georgia (under the Peachtree Immediate Care brand), Maryland (Patriot Urgent Care), and Florida (Patients First). These are our primary acquisition markets, and we are actively seeking opportunities in all three states — including both suburban and rural markets.
We are also open to evaluating opportunities from the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast around to, but not including, Texas, particularly for multi-site groups that represent a meaningful scale entry into a new market.
The most common structure we use is an asset purchase with cash consideration at close. We can also structure transactions to include earnout provisions tied to post-close performance, or even seller financing in limited circumstances.
We discuss structure openly and early — before you've committed significant time or energy to the process — so there are no surprises.
If the centers are within our current footprint, then in most cases, yes — we will rebrand acquired centers under one of our three regional brand names depending on geography. However, if the centers are outside of that footprint rebranding will depend on the strength of the acquired brand, among other factors. Operating under unified regional brands allows us to deliver a better and more consistent patient experience, invest in shared marketing, and build brand equity that benefits every center in the network.
We handle the rebranding process thoughtfully — with appropriate patient communication, community messaging, and a transition timeline that doesn't disrupt operations. Most sellers find that patients respond well to continuity of the clinical team, which matters far more than the name on the door.
We take confidentiality seriously because we understand the stakes. A premature leak to competitors, referral partners, or your own staff can create real business and personal damage — and we've never had that happen.
At the preliminary conversation stage, no formal agreement is required and we use discretion by default. Once we've established mutual interest, we execute a mutual NDA that protects both parties. All financial and operational information you share is handled internally on a need-to-know basis.
Absolutely. Some of our best acquisitions began with owners who were not actively planning to sell. A conversation costs nothing, reveals a lot, and gives you better information — about market conditions, valuation ranges, and what a sale might actually look like — that helps you make a more informed decision regardless of what you ultimately choose to do.
We're not in the business of pressuring people into transactions. If you speak with us and decide it's not the right time, that's a completely fine outcome. We'd rather earn your trust now than push you into something that isn't right for you.
Get in Touch
Reach out directly and our CEO or Chief Corporate Development Officer will respond personally — typically within one business day. Every inquiry is treated as confidential from the moment you hit send.
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