Huron Consulting Group Bolsters Huron Healthcare with Strategy and Supply Chain Experts
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced that Jim
Agnew and Jeffrey
McLaren have joined the Company as managing directors in its Huron
Healthcare practice.
“As the healthcare industry continues to rapidly evolve, the need for
providers to develop new approaches to care delivery, cost structures
and performance improvement is clear,” said Gordon
Mountford, executive vice president, Huron
Healthcare. “We are pleased to welcome Jim to the Huron Healthcare
team and excited to have Jeff back on board. Our clients will benefit
from their deep industry knowledge to help hospitals, health systems and
academic medical centers thrive in the ever changing healthcare
environment.”
Agnew
has more than 30 years of executive leadership and advisory services
experience working within hospital operations. Agnew joins Huron
Healthcare from Navigant Consulting where he served as a managing
director in the healthcare practice. At Huron
Healthcare, he will focus on strategy
and advisory services. During his career, Agnew has assisted hospital
leadership and governing boards engaged in mergers and acquisitions,
post-merger and network integration, and growth strategies.
McLaren
has more than 20 years of strategic sourcing, strategy, cost reduction
and process improvement experience working with hospital, health system,
and academic medical center clients. He rejoins Huron Healthcare from
VHA Inc., where he served as senior vice president for national supply
chain services. At Huron
Healthcare, McLaren will assist clients
in developing their future supply chain strategies and in reducing
non-labor expenses including supplies, pharmaceuticals and purchased
services.
About Huron Healthcare
Huron
Healthcare partners with clients to provide comprehensive
performance improvement solutions that improve quality, increase
revenue, reduce expenses, and increase physician, patient, and employee
satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include national
and regional integrated healthcare systems, leading academic medical
centers, community hospitals and physician practices. Modern
Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2012 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, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from
distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. The Company teams
with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron
provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and
distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, Fortune
500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses,
and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more
at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
