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How to Build Profitable, Mission-Driven Healthcare Businesses
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The gap
Clinical brilliance doesn’t guarantee business success. This book is the mini MBA healthcare professionals never got in school.
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Build teams that scale without your constant involvement, so the practice stops depending on your calendar.
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Create systems and processes that hold clinical standards steady while volume increases.
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Navigate healthcare compliance and present a business lenders and investors are willing to back.
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Leverage automation to strip administrative drag so clinicians can stay in care.
Operating model
Four moves. Each one takes you out of the work and puts you on it.
Hire
Build the people layer so the business is not trapped in your calendar.
The authors
DPT · U.S. Army Major · Clinical Operations
Licensed physical therapist with more than twenty years of clinical experience and a decorated U.S. Army Major who served for over twenty-five years. At Cartera Health he leads clinical operations and quality initiatives. He lives in Texas.
MBA · Combat Medic Veteran · Strategy & Growth
U.S. Army veteran who served as a combat medic during Desert Storm. Holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA in change management and finance. At Cartera Health he oversees strategy, acquisitions and operational scaling.
The book that started it
The mini MBA most clinicians never got in school. Drop your email and we’ll send the opening chapter — then a path into the HEAL Assessment and Scale Lab.
Get the book
ISBN 9798891883512 · Published September 1, 2026
A 90-day live accelerator with Sterling and Stephen Carter. You take the HEAL Assessment, join a founding cohort, and implement the systems that move you to the next stage — weekly, with accountability. Founding price is $1,997. The next cohort starts November 2, 2026.
Read it. Then take the HEAL Assessment and see whether this cohort is the right next move.