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United Surgical Partners International, Inc. ("USPI") was founded in February 1998 by Don Steen and the investment firm, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, to pursue the ownership and management of ambulatory surgery centers ("ASCs") in the United States; and the ownership and operation of private surgical hospitals in Europe. USPI believes that these strategies are synergetic because they both provide primarily surgical services. Bill Wilcox and several other managers that have collectively worked together in the past joined the company later in 1998.
USPI was established on the premise that there are opportunities for an experienced management group to develop a premier international surgical services company. USPI approaches the business of health care delivery with the philosophy that success will be measured by the satisfaction of the patients as customers, and also by the physicians who practice at these facilities as partners and clients.
United Surgical Partners International, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has ownership interests in or operates 141 surgical facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Of the Company's 138 domestic facilities, 78 are jointly owned with 1 not-for-profit healthcare systems. | 
