716 health
“Every problem is a new opportunity.”
That’s the philosophy behind everything Dr. Brian McGrath does, not only as an orthopedic surgeon, but also as the visionary behind the 716 Health consortium.
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716 Health, the brainchild of Dr. McGrath and the Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation, is a state-of-the-art, 160,000-square-foot medical complex in Amherst, New York, that aims to disrupt surgical medicine and how it’s rendered to patients in Western New York. The consortium is a partnership of healthcare providers that includes the University at Buffalo Medical Group (UBMD) Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, UBMD Surgery, Great Lakes Medical Imaging, and the General Physicians Professional Corporation (GPPC).
The beating heart of the complex is its Northtowns Ambulatory Surgery Center, a 38,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center that opened its doors in October of 2024. The NASC is equipped with seven main operating rooms, four gastrointestinal suites, and three procedure rooms.
The Center, a joint venture with Kaleida Health and UBMD, offers a convenient, cost-effective, community-based option for a range of outpatient procedures, from general surgery to breast, colorectal, plastic, and vascular surgeries to orthopedics and endoscopy.
“Our ultimate goal,” McGrath says, “is to bring medical care closer to the community.”
McGrath first imagined 716 Health decades ago as he completed his business degree at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, where he began to envision how an entrepreneurial mindset could be applied in medicine to improve access to care, practice efficiency, and patient experience.
With 716 Health, this vision is realized in the consortium’s commitment to providing high quality, streamlined care in a setting designed to be convenient for every patient to navigate.
Inside the operating room, 716 employs a staff of talented, passionate doctors and healthcare professionals committed to delivering the best care, McGrath explains. Outside the operating room, 716 Health leverages cutting-edge, AI-powered technologies from Ospitek and Ampaworks, a Buffalo-based company, to improve diagnostics, streamline administration, and enable advanced patient monitoring for preventive and early intervention care.
“It’s all about the patient’s journey,” McGrath says. Whatever the reason for a patient’s visit, 716 Health and its NASC are dedicated to ensuring every step of the process is as seamless as it can be from scheduling and check-in to diagnosis and treatment to post-surgical care.
716 Health isn’t stopping there. They’re targeting 2027 for the completion of a three-phase, 400,000-square-foot addition that will house a sports field house and indoor track for youth and amateur athletics and a flagship hotel.
With its close proximity to UBMD Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and its many outreach programs, McGrath says, the new 716 Sports Fieldhouse aims to become the safest place to practice and play sports in the region.
As he looks ahead, McGrath sees nothing but opportunity for 716 Health–the opportunity to continue and improve on the work already in motion, the opportunity to expand the services they offer, and the opportunity to set a new standard for patient care and outcomes across Western New York.