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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