Supporting Children’s Hospitals and Children’s Health: The Role of the Federal “CHGME” Program
The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program (CHGME) allows independent children’s teaching hospitals to continue and expand their services dedicated to children’s unique health care needs.
A report by The Lewin Group highlighted the benefits of the CHGME Program across the following key hospital missions:
- Graduate medical education and training
- Complex, high-quality clinical care for all children
- Cutting-edge pediatric research
- Community benefits and rural outreach
For more than 40 years, The Lewin Group has provided first-tier consulting services for hospitals, health systems, and other health care organizations.
We provide a range of services including strategic planning, physician-hospital relationships, program and product line planning, safety net design, performance benchmarking and improvement, community-based planning, transaction facilitation and analysis, and policy analysis.
Services
We specialize in planning and performance improvement that is fact-based, informed by public policy developments, and grounded in community needs.
Strategy Services
- Develop enterprise-wide strategic plans and service line plans
- Develop community-based safety net strategies and financing
- Create medical staff plans
Financial and Operational Planning
- Develop managed care contracting strategies
- Conduct debt capacity analysis and financial projections
- Provide assistance with mergers and affiliations
Policy Analysis and Evaluation
- Perform financial and economic analysis of regulatory proposals
- Assess payment adequacy/shortfalls of governmental programs
- Evaluate ambulatory care redesign plans
Our Clients
Some of our Hospital, Health System and Provider clients have included the following:
- MedCath Corporation
- San Francisco General Hospital
- Canton-Potsdam Hospital
- Charles Cole Memorial Hospital
- Howard University Medical Center
- Moses Taylor Medical Center
- Indiana Regional Medical Center
- Washington Adventist Hospital
- University Medical Center of Clark County
- Nassau University Medical Center
- Health Sciences South Carolina
- Memorial Hospital System
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Baltimore Medical System