Jon Belsher

Jon Belsher is a medical professional and a part of the executive team at UCI Medical Affiliates. After serving in the Arizona Air National Guard, he worked for a number of non-profits prior to serving as a member of the founding executive team for Medspring. MedSpring was founded in Texas in 2011, when urgent care centers began to grow dramatically in their numbers in the United States. Since then, Belsher has helped expand MedSpring to become one of the largest urgent care providers in the United States.
Belsher formerly served as the Chief Medical Officer and as a member of the founding executive team for MedSpring. Belsher currently serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of UCI Medical Affiliates in Columbia, SC.
Early life
Belsher served as Chief of Aerospace Medicine for the Arizona Air National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was second-in-command of the medical group of the largest Air National Guard in the United States.
Career
In 2011, Belsher was a founding executive team member of MedSpring Urgent Care. He and other entrepreneurs helped facilitate a healthcare revolution in the United States, where people opted to visit more affordable urgent care centers instead of hospital emergency rooms.
MedSpring was founded in the state of Texas. MedSpring located their urgent care clinics in areas with high foot and vehicular traffic, such as shopping centers and busy residential areas.
By 2014, urgent care clinics had begun to divert patients away from hospitals. The fall in insurance-covered patients meant that hospitals had a higher percentage of uninsured emergency patients, which made them less profitable. While some were critical of urgent care clinics and said they were to blame, in an interview with the New York Times, Belsher stated, “emergency rooms have been great for the country in providing emergency care, but obviously most of us aren’t dealing with true emergencies on a daily basis.” MedSpring was acquired by Fresenius in late 2014, for an undisclosed amount.
In more recent years, Belsher has managed the expansion of MedSpring from Texas into other states. In 2015, Belsher and MedSpring expanded to Chicago, Illinois, before opening centers in other cities in the state.
MedSpring has since become one of the largest national providers in the urgent care market, expanding most recently into the northeast, following a partnership with Partners HealthCare.
Jon Belsher joined UCI Medical Affiliates in November of 2017 and currently serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer. Belsher works to close the gap between healthcare operations, clinical care, and healthcare administration at UCI Medical Affiliates.

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