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Hospitals and Health Systems
For over 35 years, The Lewin Group has provided first-tier consulting services for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare organizations. We specialize in planning and performance improvement that is data-driven, informed by public policy developments, consensus-based, and grounded in community needs. Our services include:
Community-Based Planning
Hospitals and health systems that lose touch with community needs, area health status, and their roles in community systems of care will lose market share and trust and can attract regulatory scrutiny. Lewin evaluates the extent to which hospitals are community- based, and recommends targeted strategies for program development, cultural competency, and community interface that promote long-range success.
Hospital Accountability
Health care organizations increasingly are being held accountable for the community benefits they provide, billing and collections practices for uninsured or underinsured patients, and their stewardship of not-for-profit assets. Lewin has worked with numerous clients, including HFMA, the Catholic Health Association, and hospital systems to develop unique tools and approaches to measure, demonstrate and improve accountability to these growing concerns.
Physician-Hospital Relationships
Productive physician alignment represents a key factor in the ability for a health system to meet the needs of its market and achieve goals. Lewin is experienced with analyzing the sometimes complex relationships between hospitals and their medical staffs, and with designing solutions in program growth, medical group operations, physician governance models, joint venture evaluation and design, development of effective physician organizations, and joint strategies designed to meet community needs. Lewin can develop sustainable physician/hospital strategies and programs that contribute to enhanced patient care, patient safety, continuity of care, and overall success for the healthcare organization.
Program and Product Line Planning
Lewin has worked with numerous clients as they plan for new programs (e.g., open heart surgery and angioplasty) and new facilities. The firm provides objective market and financial forecasts that inform feasibility assessments, program designs, CON applications, and decisions regarding facility replacement.
Safety-Net Design and Performance Improvement
Lewin has an established track record working with communities around the U.S. as they design and strengthen their systems of safety-net care. The firm's professionals are expert in productivity improvement, strategies for diversifying public hospital revenue streams, approaches to expanding insurance coverage, and identifying and analyzing alternative approaches to organizing and financing safety-net services.
Strategic Planning
Lewin's approach to strategic planning emphasizes rigorous market assessment, realistic analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses, and consensus building around effective positioning and performance initiatives.
Research and Medical Education Program Development
Research and scholarly activities represent a fundamental value to healthcare organizations. Lewin believes these programs should be ingrained in an organization's culture and fully integrated into clinical service lines. Lewin has proven capabilities in research compliance, strategic research plans, research operations and finance, and physician compensation strategies that consider research and scholarly activity.
Transaction Facilitation and Analysis
Mergers and collaborations rarely meet expectations if the case for the transactions is not compelling. Lewin professionals carefully develop the case for these arrangements, facilitate the collaboration process, and measure impacts for health care organizations and for regulators.
Workforce Management
Balancing demand for physicians and nurses with constraints on supply represents one of the greatest challenges facing healthcare organizations. Lewin applies national models developed for HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions to local community populations to anticipate potential imbalances and inform targeted strategies for maintaining a vibrant healthcare workforce.
For more information about healthcare organizations, please contact Lisa Chimento.
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