Huron Consulting Group Expands Huron Healthcare with Managing Director
April 23 2014 - 7:55AM
Business Wire
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of
business consulting services, today announced that Kathleen T.
O’Connell has joined its Huron Healthcare practice as a managing
director focused on strategic and cost repositioning planning at
academic medical centers and large integrated delivery
networks.
“Hospital and health systems continue to bridge the transition
from a volume- to a value-based system of healthcare through
strategic expense reduction and revenue-enhancement approaches, as
well as aggressively exploring additional revenue streams to
transform the enterprise,” said Gordon Mountford, executive vice
president, Huron Healthcare. “Kathleen’s wide-ranging strategic,
operational and clinical expertise will help our clients prioritize
the right restructuring and innovative growth plans for their
organizations.”
O’Connell has more than 25 years of experience helping hospitals
and health systems with mergers and acquisitions, planning, supply
chain management and operational improvement. Most recently she
founded KTO Healthcare Consulting LLC, providing professional
services to a large Integrated Delivery Network (IDN). Prior to
that, she served as group vice president at Premier Healthcare
Alliance leading clients through the transformation to
high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. At Huron Healthcare,
O’Connell will help providers manage through the multitude of
changes that the shift in payments models has caused. She is a
registered nurse.
About Huron Healthcare
Huron Healthcare is the premier provider of performance
improvement and clinical transformation solutions for hospitals and
health systems. By partnering with clients, Huron delivers
solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses,
and enhance physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across
the healthcare enterprise. Clients include leading national and
regional integrated healthcare systems, academic medical centers,
community hospitals and physician practices. Modern Healthcare
ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2013 list of the largest
healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at
www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter:
@Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries
improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs,
leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex
data, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and
stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in
finance, operations, strategy and technology to provide our clients
with specialized analyses and customized advice and solutions that
are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and
opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. The
Company provides consulting services to a wide variety of both
financially sound and distressed organizations, including
healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune
500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has
worked with more than 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic
medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more
than 350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at
www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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