Strategic and Business Planning

Does your healthcare organization have a clear, implementable strategic plan, and are your key leaders "on the same page?" Has your strategic plan been updated to anticipate the changing trends in your market and in the healthcare industry? Or, as is the case for some organizations, is your strategic plan sitting on a shelf collecting dust as your team gets bogged down by day-to-day operations?

The Camden Group's national thought leaders and healthcare advisors are experts at assisting healthcare providers and health plans with strategic and business planning. We have helped hundreds of clients across the country not only prepare but implement strategic and business plans based on their unique culture, circumstances, and ambitions.

A Customized and Collaborative Approach

Our clients value our "client-first" planning approach - one that blends both collaboration and customized detailed analyses. Approximately two-thirds of the planning process is devoted to on-site work sessions with your key constituents to develop the vision, goals, and strategies of the organization. Our recommendations are supported by our thorough analyses and assessments of historical and "current state" information. Additionally we factor in future trends related to global, national, regional, and local dynamics. How will trends in medical technology, clinical practice evolution, reimbursement, physician practice plans, delivery models, consumerism, work force, regulations, etc. affect your strategy? We give deep consideration to these issues in order to develop and implement successful strategies for our clients. Our resulting plans are specific to each organization and reflective of its key stakeholders.

Future-oriented Integrated Financial and Strategic Planning

We believe that to be successful, a strategic plan must be closely integrated with the organization's financial performance, budgeting process, capital allocation, medical staff recruitment/retention and alignment, and facility master plans. Our approach is comprehensive and thorough, providing clients with focused, well-conceived, and implementable strategies to achieve desired results.

Fundamental to our process is identifying the historical and potential future financial contribution to the organization made by each service line, business unit, and key initiative. This information is combined with a thorough assessment of debt capacity and access to capital and then used to prioritize resource allocation and project the impact of the strategies on future financial performance. We utilize Camden's DecisionPoint, our proprietary financial model, to support the analysis.

The Camden Group is unique among consulting companies in that we have extensive experience in assisting hospitals and physician organizations across so many disciplines. In our strategic planning processes, The Camden Group plays four roles in collaboration with an organization's Strategic Planning Committee:

Role 1: Facilitation of the Planning Process Provide discipline/focus Enable decision-making Build consensus	Role 3: Provision of Technical Assistance Internal and Market Assessment Projection of utilization, resource need (facilities, equipment, technology, physicians, and clinical staff), and financial performance with proprietary tools such as Camden's Market Forecaster and Camden's DecisionPoint Metrics and score card
Role 2: Contribution of National Perspectives Evaluate implications of trends Introduce new ideas/perspectives Challenge conventional thinking	Role 4: Development of Planning Documents Progress reports Entity-level strategy Draft strategic plan Final strategic plan

Contact us for more information on our strategic and business planning services and how we can help you plan for the future.