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The healthcare industry is in transition. Organizations that can’t execute aggressive transformational strategies and initiatives without disrupting ongoing operations risk extinction.

Accomplishing a transformational strategy can bring better patient experiences and outcomes while overcoming cost, workforce, and operational challenges. Yet transformation requires identification of impactful initiatives, disciplined prioritization, and organizational adaptability. And it is hampered by silos, poor execution, aversion to change, and cultural and structural hurdles. 

Well-intentioned but bloated strategic portfolios dilute resources, resulting in prolonged, inefficient execution, frustrated staff, and significant lost opportunity. 

Initiatives designed to transform a healthcare organization require disciplined planning, change management, and program leadership. In fact, multiple executive surveys confirm that the major obstacle to strategy realization is poor and unreliable execution. 

How We Help

Since 1988, organizations across diverse industries have trusted IPM to help develop, prioritize, and execute their most complex strategic initiatives. We apply our unparalleled expertise in project planning, incorporating a culture assessment and change management, to ensure the success and sustainability of healthcare organizations’ most critical objectives. 

IPM is a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Award (2018) and was recognized for its role model practices in establishing and executing strategy and sustaining a values-based culture. In the last decade, we’ve managed more than 100 projects for more than 40 healthcare organizations. 

Our industry experience and expertise includes: 

  • Hospitals 
  • Healthcare systems 
  • Medical laboratories 
  • Healthcare associations 

Partner with IPM’s Healthcare Consultants to Address These Critical Needs

Business Process & Technology Optimization to support your digital health transformation, facilitate data-driven decision-making, or improve processes in your business office and clinical settings. 

Strategic Portfolio & Program Management to establish the governance structure, prioritization, and resource planning to accomplish the high-ROI programs and projects that enhance patient care, experience, and outcomes. 

Culture & Strategy Alignment to identify the cultural enablers and inhibitors to realizing strategy and shape a more effective culture, and engage and empower your workforce. 

Mergers & Acquisitions Integration to harmonize the systems, processes, operations, and culture of your newly combined healthcare organization. 

Capital Project Management to plan and implement your expansion, relocation, or consolidation. 

Contact us to learn how we can help accomplish your transformative strategy. 

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Healthcare Consulting Services

System Selection & Implementation

IPM consultants bring business process and IT system expertise to make your digital health transformation successful. We can find and implement the right ERP system for your hospital system or lab.

Integration Management

IPM helps your healthcare organization through all aspects of M&A integration, from merging functional teams to developing a playbook. You’ll achieve harmonized processes, operations, and culture.

Project Leadership

Consultants in healthcare project management, IPM combines industry experience with best-in-class project management processes, tools, and training to improve patient care, experience, and outcomes.

Strategy Realization

We apply our Strategic Realization Model to your healthcare organization to translate strategic initiatives into action and outcomes. Let IPM build your Strategy Realization Office and governance structure.

Resource Planning

We can help you address the resource constraints of your organization by developing prioritization criteria, demand forecasts, and evaluation methods.

Project Portfolio Management

Improve the portfolio management, decision-making, communication, governance, and prioritization of projects for your healthcare organization to meet your critical objectives.

Project Management Office (PMO)

Our healthcare consultants can help your organization develop or improve your Project Management Office to optimize project, program, and portfolio management capabilities.

Change Management

Achieve meaningful change in your healthcare organization with help from IPM’s change management consulting service.

Culture Assessment

IPM healthcare consultants can assess, profile and shape the culture of your organization to better enable you to accomplish your strategy.

Data Analytics

IPM advanced data analytics experts can develop predictive models to anticipate outcomes and optimize your healthcare operations.

Capital Project Management

We help you control investments in healthcare facilities, capabilities, and equipment while mitigating risks. IPM manages the expansion, relocation, or consolidation of your clinic, hospital, or lab.

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What Our Clients Are Saying

"With IPM’s leadership, we were able to identify and prioritize the needed changes and then plan and execute the improvements. The IPM project leaders became a part of our hospital family as they brought a level of communication and departmental coordination that we likely would not have achieved on our own. With their project leadership, we were able to complete the process improvements in about half the time expected. As a result, we are now achieving metric goals in patient throughput many months sooner than we had hoped."

Medical Director Hospital

"[The IPM team] was absolutely marvelous. They were quick studies, assimilated quickly, were well organized and astute. I appreciated their style—assertive yet diplomatic, impactful yet seamless. You have given us 100 percent confidence we will succeed as the tool was comprehensive yet simple. I also appreciate not only the work ethic but commitment to excellence. Your follow-up, post-implementation to ensure effectiveness validates your ongoing commitment to your clients’ success. I would highly recommend you, your company, and/or the two individuals we used to anyone interested."

Joan Magruder President, Missouri Baptist Medical Center

"When I contacted IPM, our company had gotten into a unique, large project with a client that was more complex and challenging than we had originally anticipated. IPM helped us ‘right the ship’ and make course adjustments. Since their involvement, we have been able to make steady progress. The IPM methodology and approach works well, and they helped develop confidence internally for us as well as externally with our key client, by driving accountability and responsibility. During our engagement, we received support from all levels within IPM—it was not a simple, single-handed effort by one person. My experience with IPM has been very positive and I would recommend this company to anyone who needs project management and guidance to work through complex programs and projects."

Justin Witkowski SVP Operations & Client Services (Healthcare Services), Quantros

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