KSA's strategy services include strategic planning at the system/medical center, institutional, and clinical program levels. Functional work includes areas such as ambulatory care, physician practice and program development, networking and outreach, merger/acquisition, and organization and governance.

 

Our planning approach employs our depth of knowledge regarding historical, present, and future factors affecting successful planning for health care providers. Through the planning process, we facilitate organizational change through a proven approach and systematic participation of client personnel at all levels of the organization.

 

 

 

 

Strategic Planning
KSA provides strategy assistance across a full range of strategic issues, from the development of market-driven growth/geographic plans to formal collaboration with one or more institutions, including the organizational, financial, and operating aspects of each. KSA's solutions, whether a comprehensive strategy plan or the resolution of a complex question/issue, are creative, yet pragmatic, identifying the organizational, financial, and situational requirements for successful implementation.

  • Clinical business assessments and market positioning
  • Competitive strategy
    • Vision development
    • Identification of competitive advantages
    • Option development
    • Action planning and implementation assistance
  • Financial modeling
  • Resource prioritization and strategic capital planning

 

Market Planning
Because health care is local, how well a hospital or health system serves its market area is an important determinant of its success. KSA has tools to analyze and understand the service area, patient origin, market share, population trends, utilization shifts, geographic barriers, travel patterns, and competitive actions and reactions. These tools are the critical building blocks we use to help our clients determine capacity needs, size their systems, develop their medical staff, grow programs and services, or locate new facilities.

  • Market modeling/forecasting
    • Location/geographic positioning and network development
    • Medical staff development and physician need analyses
    • Volume projections and bed need analyses
    • Competitive scenario analyses
  • Provider/payor implications


Clinical Service/Business Line Planning
KSA works closely with physicians, clinicians, and administration in the development and deployment of clinical programs. With a broad experience base, KSA has focused expertise in "centers of excellence" such as cardiac services, cancer, orthopedics, and neurological services. This expertise includes defining innovative financial, organizational, and delivery models for the programs. KSA recognizes the breadth and depth of resources required and supports each plan with a practical prioritization of initiatives.

  • Feasibility studies
  • Clinical program planning
    • Definition, integration, and structure
    • Vision, strategies, and tactics
  • Business initiative planning
    • Revenue and expense modeling
    • Resource allocation and capital planning

 

Organization and Governance
KSA understands the complex nature of today's health care organizations. Our health care group is distinctively skilled in facilitating the sensitive issues related to board structure and activities, physician-hospital relationships, management and medical staff structures, funds flow within and between organizations, and all aspects of affiliation and merger discussions. With experience in this area among the premier health care providers, KSA brings a national perspective to each situation.

  • Governance and management
    • Organizational design and operating models
    • Board structure
    • Medical staff structure
    • Management organization
    • Leadership retreats

 

Merger/Acquisition and Other Affiliation Assistance

  • Partner evaluation and selection
  • Network formation/affiliations/mergers
  • Group practice formation
  • Asset divestiture
  • Implementation planning