Strategic Planning & Positioning

Hospitals are successful only when they have a concise business plan with a clear vision of the future. Health care strategic planning is where our consultants provide expert guidance. Working with a wide range of industries, we've gained a hard-won knowledge of healthcare service delivery and would be pleased to put that knowledge to work for your organization, regardless of your size.

Planning for Success

Success in your planning project requires trust in the facilitator, the effective presentation of ideas, and an abiding understanding that all decisions remain in your hands. We are successful when the alternatives are clear, the implications of those alternatives are understood, and the process leads to clear decisions. This is true regardless of whether we are working with your management, your medical staff, or your governing board.

Our Approach

When AHS works with you, we are working on your plan. We do not present materials under our firm name, nor do we present what we think all clients should be doing. We become a part of your team, engaging the organization and often the community, to ensure that whatever decisions are made have the best possible chance of success.

Services
Healthcare Strategic Planning Process Leadership Organize and facilitate an objective process that will lead decision makers to a clear vision of a future direction, define goals, and offer strategies to achieve those goals. Create the mechanisms for ongoing updates and evaluations.
Organizational Strategic Assessment Profile internal strengths & weaknesses and external opportunities & threats. Assess corporate culture, environment, and readiness for change. Conduct attitudinal studies of employees and constituents and perform image assessment.
American Healthcare Solutions

"Our organization, like most New York hospitals has been challenged financially. We wanted an objective assessment of our organizational capacities at a high level and a review of what we might do to improve our position in the market. We were referred to American Healthcare Solutions and retained them to deploy their Organizational Assessment Program. Our expectations were exceeded. They gave us a much clearer understanding of the health status of our communities of interest, opportunities for financial improvement and organizational changes that will serve us well for years to come. We feel we have a long term partnership with American Healthcare Solutions to help us in a wide variety of challenges that may emerge from time to time. They have been respectful of our board members, medical staff and each member of our management team. They have our unqualified recommendation to any organization not quite sure of their current strategic operational status."

Jim Sinner
President and CEO,
Medina Memorial Health Care System

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