About NOMS Healthcare

Our History

How It All Began

A New Era in Healthcare

1999 - Thirty well-established northcentral Ohio community physicians begin discussions to explore various structures to advance the overall level of healthcare offered in the region.
2000 - The resulting structure is an independent, clinically integrated, multi-specialty physician group: Northern Ohio Medical Specialists, LLC or NOMS Healthcare.
2001 - NOMS Healthcare officially opens for business as one large collaborative group with an independent diagnostic testing facility and joint partnership with an ambulatory surgery center.
2001-2006 - NOMS Healthcare creates in-house departments with employees dedicated to: revenue cycle, human resources, credentialing, accounting, and a call center.

From 35 to 70 providers

2007 - NOMS physicians form an IT committee to explore conversion from paper charts to an electronic medical record (EMR) platform. In September, NOMS newly formed IT department begins implementing EMR systemwide. Over multiple years, NOMS strategically implements the new platform beginning with primary care sites, and subsequently areas of specialty practice.
2007 - NOMS opens northcentral Ohio’s first urgent care.
2007 - 2011 During this multi-year conversion to EMR, numerous outside practices begin noticing NOMS’ progressive culture and partnership inquiries are abundant. Over this relatively short period, NOMS effectively doubles in providers, as well as its overall team. With EMR fully implemented and optimized, NOMS begins developing committees to explore various opportunities and advantages of having its clinical data available on an electronic platform. This leads NOMS into its current, and most transformational period as an organization.
2008 - The first practice location outside of NOMS’ core northcentral Ohio region (Erie, Huron, Seneca, Sandusky, and Ottawa counties) joins NOMS.
2012 - As a result of the Affordable Care Act and initiatives within the legislation, NOMS Healthcare creates NOMS ACO, LLC, one of the select few independent physician-owned accountable care organizations in the Midwest.
2013-2014 - NOMS partners with commercial insurance health plans to participate in value-based care initiatives.
2014 - NOMS expands to 70 healthcare providers in 35 locations throughout six counties in northern Ohio.

From 70 to 200+ providers

2015 - NOMS invests in additional outpatient locations in Greater Cleveland.
2017 - NOMS establishes structure and standard operating procedures and begins opening sophisticated in-house blood draw labs across the service area as a convenience to patients.
2018 - NOMS expands in the west to Greater Toledo.
2019 - NOMS expands in the east to Greater Youngstown with the addition of 20 locations.
2020 - Over this 5 year period, NOMS quadruples in size, expanding to 245 licensed providers in 144 locations throughout 16 counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.