Huron Healthcare Announces a Podcast Series Addressing Issues Impacting Hospitals and Health Systems

CHICAGO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Huron Consulting Group, a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced a complimentary Huron Healthcare podcast series focusing on the issues that affect a hospital’s bottom line as well as providing best practices to achieve success in the new healthcare landscape.

“Improving Operations Key to Preparing for Healthcare Reform”

The premier podcast entitled, “Improving Operations Key to Preparing for Healthcare Reform” discusses the fiscal and operational challenges that hospitals and health systems face as they address the different strategic imperatives healthcare reform demands. The podcast features Huron Healthcare’s Ken Saitow and Jamie Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, and focuses on:

• Practical ways CEOs and boards are addressing operational issues that materially affect both expense and revenues.
• Keys to sidelining egos and fostering executive level teamwork to achieve long lasting results.
• How healthcare executives can create urgency for change within their organizations – and provide strategic direction for that change.

To listen to the Huron Healthcare podcasts visit: http://www.huronconsultinggroup.com/researchdetails.aspx?articleId=2843.

Saitow and Orlikoff also authored a recent H&HN article on this topic. The article is available at: http://www.huronconsultinggroup.com/researchdetails.aspx?articleId=2605.

In addition to the podcast series, Huron Healthcare released a series of briefings related to healthcare reform to help prepare hospitals and healthcare providers. The full healthcare reform series is available at: http://www.huronconsultinggroup.com/category.aspx?categoryId=2366.

To speak with Saitow or another one of Huron Healthcare’s experts about healthcare reform initiatives or other issues affecting hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers, please contact:

Jennifer Frost Hennagir
312-880-3260
[e-mail]

Jenna Nichols
312-880-5693
[e-mail]

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 2010 list of the top 15 largest healthcare management consulting firms.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, resolve disputes, 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 leading academic institutions, healthcare organizations, Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized businesses, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.