Academic Health Centers
Academic health centers and teaching hospitals are facing unprecedented financial pressure to sustain their missions of teaching, patient care and research. Huron Consulting Group understands the unique culture and challenges of medical schools and university medical centers, and how they relate to the rest of higher education.
Huron Consulting Group professionals have served in leadership positions and have led performance improvement initiatives at university medical schools and teaching hospitals. Huron professionals will help you plan and manage resources effectively, evaluate key performance measures and success criteria, and develop progressive organizational models that can be more responsive to the unique challenges inherent in the educational, research, and clinical service areas of medical centers.
Huron Consulting Group can help you with:
- Strategic Performance Improvement – Huron will help identify ways to make your institution more efficient and competitive.
- New Medical School Planning and Expansion – Huron can help with all aspects of planning, from setting up programs to hiring staff to getting accreditation.
- Clinical, Research and Education Program Planning – We can help you understand how to differentiate your programs and bring them distinction.
- Budget Development and Financial Performance – Huron will help make operations more efficient without compromising core mission.
- Facilities and Capital Planning – Huron will help you align your construction plans with your strategic priorities
- International Program Development – Huron can help you to expand your health services practice overseas.
- Physician Practice Management – How well does the priorities of the physician practice at your university medical center align with the overall goals of your university? Huron can help answer questions like these.
- Faculty Productivity and Management -- Is faculty compensation aligned with faculty effort and productivity by mission?
- Executive Management and Administration – Are the institution’s resources efficiently and effectively spent in support of its core missions?
- Research Enterprise Management –Huron professionals have decades of experience in managing research operations at universities and colleges.
- Healthcare Services – Huron includes Wellspring + Stockamp, a leader in performance improvement in the healthcare industry.