Health care systems across the country are grappling with a host of challenges that will dramatically impact their ability to deliver care in the future. As cost pressures continue to rise and reimbursements shrink, health care leaders struggle to think about where to place their bets (and their capital investments) on inpatient facilities, outpatient clinics, care for the aging, service lines, partnerships, medical devices and technology, information systems, and on and on. In the midst of coping with these challenges, an overdue focus on patient safety lifts up the challenge of collaboration across time and the many different clinicians who shape the patient's experience. No one can predict the future, but it is safe to say that decisions made today will profoundly impact health systems' ability to survive over time. CFAR works with health system leadership to address these and other complex institutional challenges. We have deep experience working with hospital and health systems, clinicians and boards to tackle strategically important issues, with an eye toward crafting solutions that can be owned by multiple stakeholders and successfully implemented.

We provide support for:

• Developing participatory strategy processes for the entire system, individual hospitals or local units.
• Managing small and large-scale change initiatives related to strategy or during times of reorganization and realignment.
• Enhancing or changing organizational structures to improve performance.
• Implementing IT strategy, with a focus on staff's ability to understand, use and optimize the IT infrastructure.
• Planning for and managing top team leadership transitions.
• Building alliances and partnerships, within the system or with external partners, that better enable organizations to achieve their goals.
• Working with boards and other governance bodies.
• Improving collaboration and productivity among teams, including both administrators and clinicians.
• Conducting industry and market assessments.
• Providing education and training to build the human capital required to advance strategic objectives.