Ms. Jacobs is a senior vice president with The Camden Group and has been with the firm since 1990. She has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of physician-hospital relationships, physician group development and management, performance improvement, healthcare strategic planning and marketing, physician compensation, and payer strategy.
Ms. Jacobs has assisted hospital and physician organizations throughout the country with strategic planning, operational assessment and performance improvement, and merger facilitation. She has led the strategic, financial, and operational redesign of medical groups, IPAs, and physician-hospital relationships. She has directed the strategic and business planning process for hospitals, medical groups, IPAs, academic practices, and integrated delivery systems.
Ms. Jacobs has also facilitated the development of integrated medical groups and IPAs, guiding the design of their structure, governance, strategy, and management. She has led the redesign of physician compensation and incentive structures for medical groups and faculty practice plans. She is a frequent speaker for hospital and physician groups regarding current trends in healthcare, payer strategies, consumer expectations, physician compensation, hospital-physician relationships, clinical integration and optimizing performance.
Prior to joining The Camden Group, Ms. Jacobs held administrative positions at St. Vincent Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles and Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, California. She is the co-editor of Medical Group Management: Strategies for Enhancing Performance, and a Board Member of the Providence Medical Institute in Torrance, California.
Ms. Jacobs has assisted hospital and physician organizations throughout the country with strategic planning, operational assessment and performance improvement, and merger facilitation. She has led the strategic, financial, and operational redesign of medical groups, IPAs, and physician-hospital relationships. She has directed the strategic and business planning process for hospitals, medical groups, IPAs, academic practices, and integrated delivery systems.
Ms. Jacobs has also facilitated the development of integrated medical groups and IPAs, guiding the design of their structure, governance, strategy, and management. She has led the redesign of physician compensation and incentive structures for medical groups and faculty practice plans. She is a frequent speaker for hospital and physician groups regarding current trends in healthcare, payer strategies, consumer expectations, physician compensation, hospital-physician relationships, clinical integration and optimizing performance.
Prior to joining The Camden Group, Ms. Jacobs held administrative positions at St. Vincent Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles and Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, California. She is the co-editor of Medical Group Management: Strategies for Enhancing Performance, and a Board Member of the Providence Medical Institute in Torrance, California.
Ms. Jacobs received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University and her master's in public health/corporate management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Email: ljacobs@thecamdengroup.com