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"Health Strategies & Solutions worked with our organization on a webcast and white paper series about ambulatory care strategy in children's hospitals. The project was well received by our member hospitals, and I consider it some of the most thoughtful and prescriptive work we have done thanks to the diligence and expertise of Health Strategies & Solutions."
Jacqueline Kueser
Vice President
Child Health Corporation of America
"We selected Health Strategies and Solutions as the result of a competitive process among 3 firms. Their excellent work validated our choice. They worked with us to construct a 10-year vision and a three-year plan with diverse stakeholders including board members, executive staff, and physicians. We were particularly interested in their ability to assess the national children's hospital market and help us determine where we fit in. I would certainly engage them again."
Leonard Banco, MD
Vice President, Strategy and Regional Development
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
"Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc. has played a valuable role helping us plan for the growth of our clinical programs, facilities, and medical staff, by providing comprehensive, reliable forecasts of future demand for inpatient, emergency, surgery, and neonatal services."
Nina Beauchesne
Administrator
Joe DiMaggio Children'ts Hospital and Pediatric Services for Memorial Healthcare System
"No other consulting firm could have done as good a job for us."
Andrew Werner
Chairman of the Board
KidsPeace
"It was a pleasure working with Health Strategies & Solutions. We did not get a cookie cutter approach or process but rather an engagement that was tailored to our needs. They were able to provide creative analyses to a situation where there is limited, straight-forward data available. I know it is good marketing on their part, but I appreciate their remaining in touch after the completion of the engagement."
Brenda J. Wolf
Vice President, Planning & External Affairs
La Rabida Children’s Hospital
"Health Strategies & Solutions' process and methodologies helped us understand how our operations impacted our facility needs. They worked collaboratively with our senior team to identify strategies to optimize resources given our unique mission to deliver care to children with extraordinary needs. Their facility recommendations helped guide the architectural design process resulting in a very effective project for us."
Mike Harber
Vice President
Facilities Management
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Resources for Pediatric Providers
Children's Health Care - A World Apart by Christie Markham
HS&S Strategies & Solutions
Why Children's Business Development? by Christie Markham
Healthcare Financial Management
Children's Hospital Building Boom: Will the Bubble Burst?
HS&S Strategy Outlook
The Many Faces of America's Children's Hospitals:
Spotlight on Children's Hospitals Within Hospitals
by Christine Hartwell, FACHE
The nation’s roughly 150 general acute care children’s hospitals within hospitals and those providers aspiring to become one are at a crossroads. With cost and quality pressure bearing down on providers and uncertainties about the impact of health care reform looming ahead, children’s health care calls for a choice—commit to being a children’s hospital within a hospital with a compelling vision and identity or move aside and allow other providers to meet the community’s pediatric health care needs. This white paper explores the future outlook for children’s hospitals within hospitals and looks at the unique challenges facing the four common genres of children’s hospitals within hospitals: freestanding look-alike, NICU-centric, system consolidator, and community hospital.
Click here to download the full document or email info@hss-inc.com to request additional copies.
Child Healthscan
Health Strategies & Solutions and the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) partnered to publish a report that examines pediatric health care trends. Child Healthscan is based, in part, on a national survey of 116 NACHRI members, which examined perspectives on issues facing pediatric providers for the next two to five years.
Based on these survey results and research from the field, the report examines 10 key trends that will impact the delivery of pediatric health care, including growth, market aggregators, finance, government policy, workforce, demographics, health status, technology, consumer orientation, and quality.
To order a copy of Child Healthscan, click here.