Integrated Healthcare Strategies (IHStrategies)is dedicated exclusively to improving the operations of a wide array of healthcare organizations. Our world-class consultants offer quality solutions for managing the human capital in hundreds of hospitals, academic medical centers, health networks and nursing homes every year. We work with secular, religious, government-based and not-for-profit organizations to enhance areas including governance and leadership services, total compensation and executive search, physician services and human resource capital.
The key to success in any healthcare organization is effectively managing people. Integrated Healthcare Strategies will help you get to know your people with a data-driven, scientific approach to solving everyday issues. Our clients are able to attract, retain, manage and satisfy the most talented possible workforce to remain competitive and flexible in the market. We improve the quality of each organization by improving the quality of the work environment – one employee at a time.
The two names you know and trust in healthcare consulting, Clark Consulting – Healthcare Group and MSA|Clark Consulting – Healthcare Group, have been redefined and redesigned to become Integrated Healthcare StrategiesTM.
The evolution to Integrated Healthcare Strategies is specifically structured to help HR professionals, healthcare executives, physician leaders and board members more efficiently and effectively meet the challenges of today’s highly complex healthcare organizations.
Our new strategy consolidates and realigns the talents of our consultants and advisors – people you have known and trusted for years – into five integrated specialty practices:
- Executive Total Compensation
- MSA Executive Search
- Physician Services
- MSA HR Capital
- Governance and Leadership Services
Our new configuration of services are re-energized and designed to respond to how our clients do business today.
We offer convenient, direct access to the most comprehensive array of healthcare-specific services available anywhere. Our industry professionals understand the rigors of running a healthcare organization – from the lunchroom to the board room.
We invite you to take a few minutes to review the Executive Summary of our five Specialty Practices below and to explore our new site. Our integrated practice specialties exemplify how our evolutionary strategy can work for you.
Integrated Healthcare Strategies provides clients with the most comprehensive array of healthcare-specific consulting services available through our five integrated specialty practices:
Executive Total Compensation - Jim Nelson, Executive VP, Practice Leader (links to practice page and bio)
Today’s compensation challenge is to attract and retain the best talent available while meeting both your fiscal and executive retention goals. The solution is a comprehensive package developed to match your organization’s compensation culture, strategy and philosophy through a variety of specific components. Finding the perfect combination of base salary, bonuses, deferred compensation, contractual allowances, long-term incentives and executive supplemental benefits is the key to success.
MSA Executive Search - Jane Groves, Executive VP, Practice Leader (links to practice page and bio)
No matter where you are today in the process of choosing a new executive, our customized search methodology can assist you. Statistics including 100% of CEO searches closed on the first slate presentation, the most comprehensive candidate evaluation in the industry and 98% client retention rate over the past 10 years, have helped us rank one of the top 15 healthcare retained executive search firms in the country.
Physician Services - Felipe Padilla, Executive VP, Practice Leader (links to practice page and bio)
Physician Services helps create successful relationships between not-for-profit healthcare organizations and their employed and affiliated physicians by providing unique consulting services that focus on physician total compensation plan designs, assessment of reasonable compensation (including Professional Services Agreements), organizational structure and physician leadership development.
MSA HR Capital - Kevin Haeberle, Executive VP, Practice Leader (links to practice page and bio)
To operate effectively your human resources organization must support your strategic objectives. MSA HR Capital provides comparative data from over 1,000 hospital organizations to tailor solutions for your specific work environment. We help ensure that you reach objectives by integrating your management, compensation, labor relations and employee engagement goals into one seamlessly operating strategy.
Governance and Leadership Services - James Rice, Ph.D., Executive VP, Practice Leader (links to practice page and bio)
You can depend on an industry leader to provide valuable information, insights, design, implementation strategies and support for a variety of governance and leadership challenges. Our services include continuity planning and development, governance model design development and refinements, board retreats to enhance effectiveness, CEO and executive performance development and appraisals, Physician Leader Services (PLS) and our unique Governance of Executive Compensation (GEC) services.