H&HN August 15, 2016
Strategic decisions have positioned some health systems particularly well in the past and promise to do so in the future. Respected industry leaders helped me identify eight of them: Advocate Health Care (Illinois), Banner Health (Arizona), Baylor Scott & White Health (Texas), the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio), Geisinger Health System (Pennsylvania), Intermountain Healthcare (Utah), the Mayo Clinic (Minnesota) and Sentara Healthcare (Virginia).
In studying them anew, I have relied on personal interviews as well as an extensive review of existing literature and data. And I drew on my own experiences working with a number of health systems to develop their strategic plans over the past 30 years. My key areas of study have included reputation, geographic influence, strategic coherence over time...