Clinical Program Planning Services

With the formation of larger and more complex health care systems, organizations can often achieve the critical mass needed to expand clinical service offerings, improve quality, increase market share and revenues, and enhance image.

Health Strategies & Solutions can help organizations identify opportunities to improve and expand clinical programs, and we have particular expertise in working with physicians who want to participate in configuring future service offerings.

We have helped numerous providers across the country plan and develop cardiovascular, oncology, neuroscience, orthopedic/

musculoskeletal, women and children's, emergency, surgery, and imaging services. Our clinical program planning services include:

* Service line planning and development
* Centers of excellence
* Niche program development
* Clinical program prioritization
* Physician-hospital partnerships
* Facility/equipment requirements
* Market, environmental, and financial feasibility assessments

Business and Financial Planning Services

Effective business and financial planning is more important than ever for health care organizations. Limited and sometimes competing interests for capital and operating resources, ever-increasing competition, and increased scrutiny and oversight by boards, community leaders, and regulators add up to growing pressure to ensure that organizations perform well under adverse conditions.

HS&S has the expertise and experience to prepare business and financial plans to address a wide variety of strategic considerations. Our planning models are highly detailed and structured to accommodate ongoing changes in project plans, sensitivity analysis, contingency planning, and projection of multiple scenarios. This process is completed in a collaborative manner between the consultants and client leadership.

Our business and financial planning services includes:

* Financial feasibility
* Revenue enhancement
* Organizationwide and program business plans
* Transaction analysis
* Resource requirements
* Productivity-operations improvement
* Fair market value compliance

Leadership Advisory Services

The ultimate success of an organization's strategy and plans depends on the strength of the leadership team. Governing boards can be a system's competitive advantage, or its metaphorical albatross. Top-flight executive talent must be organized to best meet strategic needs, and then supported during periods of significant change.

Health Strategies & Solutions can help strengthen, educate, and organize governing boards and leadership teams to optimize their value to the organization and enhance their job satisfaction. We have extensive experience working with executives to enhance their performance at health care delivery organizations of all sizes and complexity, particularly during periods of significant organizational change.

Our leadership advisory services include:

• Organizational design of multihospital systems
• Post-merger integration and revitalization
• Facilitation and execution of complex projects
• Organizational culture and leadership strategies
• Governing board assessment and development
• Executive team assessment and development
• Executive and board leadership coaching
• Succession planning

Post-Merger Integration and Restructuring

Changing capital markets, expense increases outpacing reimbursement, physician practice dynamics, and workforce shortages are just a few of the many forces bearing down on financially fragile providers this year. With the next wave of provider consolidation emerging in 2009, will your organization be in a position to play the role of a consolidator? Is remaining independent an option? Is merger a near certainty or already underway?

Health Strategies & Solutions understands the complex challenges facing providers, and we have the services in place to help your organization thrive in these uncertain times. Our services include:

• Strategic growth

• Complex organizational restructuring and design

• Change management and cultural alignment

• Board and leadership effectiveness

• Service line reconfiguration

• Medical staff strategies

• Performance improvement initiatives

Benefits of Our Services

• Developing scale to meet tomorrow’s challenges

• Organization designs that optimize your ability to collaborate and better manage resources, talent, and information flow

• Streamlined governance structures

• Focused leadership with agile decision-making processes

• Resources deployed to the highest strategic priorities

• Synergy among operating units with efficiencies that promote patient and physician loyalty

• Service lines that share market opportunities and best practices instead of competing internally for resources

• Medical staff engagement and commitment to organization vision

Strategic Planning Services

Strategic plans should be more than blueprints of previous organizational direction or exercises in writing mission and vision statements. They should provide a framework for decision making within an environment that is more dynamic and competitive than ever before.

Many providers wonder if it is possible to conduct meaningful strategic planning in rapidly changing markets. We believe organizations can strike a balance between having an articulated vision and direction for the future and the flexibility to adapt as health care is transformed for the 21st century. We can also help organizations establish a clear link between planning and action to ensure that the planning process results in true progress.

Our strategic planning services include:

• Strategic planning and execution
• Competitive strategy
• Mergers and acquisitions planning
• Organizationwide design and restructuring
• Business and financial planning
  
• Market and environmental assessments
• Demand forecasting and resource development
• Scenario-based planning
• Retreats and seminars