Patient-Centered Strategy - Softcover

Jeff Hunter has extensive experience in healthcare leadership, strategy formulation and strategy deployment. His peers respect his ability to analyze and synthesize complex information and ideas; communicate them in clear, understandable, and actionable terms; and facilitate strategic thinking among leadership teams with engaging, visual methods.

Jeff has a special interest in facilitating strategic thinking for professional organizations such as healthcare, higher education, and service organizations, as well as not-for-profit community agencies. His coaching and facilitation enables others to manage vision and purpose with strategic agility.

Jeff is on the faculty of Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value), and the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics at St. Norbert College. He is also a Strategic Planning Fellow for Sg2, a leading provider of health care intelligence, analytics, and consulting.

From 1991 until his retirement in 2015 he was the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Marketing for ThedaCare, a community-sponsored system of hospitals, physicians, behavioral health services, and home care based in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was primarily responsible for strategic planning, marketing, government relations, philanthropy, and e-health.

Prior to joining ThedaCare in 1991, Mr. Hunter managed the consulting practice for Brim Healthcare in Portland, Oregon. He began his career in healthcare with Presbyterian/St. Luke s Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Hunter received his B.S. in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Detroit and his M.A. in Health Services Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hunter is actively involved in his community, is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics at St. Norbert College, and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of the Fox Valley.

Strategy has never been more important, not only for leaders, but also for those we serve. It s a new time and strategy engaging patients, staff and communities will help us to transform to the Triple Aim; better health, better care and lower costs. This book redefines the way we should plan and execute strategy and offers practical and helpful steps to thinking about the future.

Patient-Centered Strategy provides a systematic approach for making more informed choices that will create and sustain transformational improvement in health care delivery. You will never think of strategy in the same way again.

Jeff lays out a masterful description of a breakthrough approach to strategy development and design that helps organizations achieve their true potential. Based upon the solid principles of Lean Thinking, this well-orchestrated process moves people out of their conventional thought process to examine alternatives and approaches that yield dramatic improvement in business outcomes. Jeff s journey, stated in passionate terms, is a story that we can use to encourage us to attempt to disrupt the status quo of conventional thinking. Thanks Jeff for bringing this exceptional dialogue to us in such an easy to understand fashion.