Strategic Business Planning: Building More Centralized Services
Tim Cox, President, Northland Health Alliance
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Description
Keeping a Network vibrant and exciting to members is a difficult task. Sometimes you wonder whether they really care at all about the Network. Members can be energized along with network staff with a solid business plan that moves the organization forward with a new agenda of work. We spend over a year going through an extensive process of strategic business planning. The objective of this presentation will be to share an outline of the process and the steps that were take to develop the plan which will include the needs that became apparent to initiate this work along with the processes used and a final copy of the plan going forward. Attendees will be able to glean some important concepts that can be used to structure a more effective way of energizing your board and member facilities. Included will be a discussion of how to involve other members of your staff and how to move it forward after it is on paper (or electronics, as you prefer). Materials Presentation (pptx) Strategic Business Plan (docx) Northland Healthcare Information Technology Services Business Plan (docx) HIT Template for IDN (docx) Presenter
Tim Cox serves as President of Northland Health Alliance, a rural health alliance located in North Dakota. The alliance is a coalition includes 20 healthcare facilities (one tertiary medical center, 12 critical access hospitals, and seven long-term care facilities) working together to strengthen available resources and capacity to deliver value-based healthcare in today’s competitive market. Tim has been able to secure over $12 million for members and network programs thought grants and development. Included in those grant dollars are a CAP project, a Community Health Center start up, a PACE program and other diverse community healthcare development initiatives. The alliance is involved in a wide range of services for its members including account collection, a natural gas purchasing cooperative, biomedical repair services, equipment maintenance, mobile imaging, education, medical records services, grant writing and development and as discussed the operation of a PACE program. Northland PACE was one of the 14 sites that received a CORE grant to introduce PACE into rural communities. Over the past 25 years, Tim has been engaged in many healthcare networking activities, including the startup and on-going development of two major healthcare networks in different regions of the country. Tim was involved in the development of the National Cooperative of Health Networks as a charter member and as past president and was also chair of Communities Joined in Action (CJA) and has served on the board of the National PACE Association for the past four years. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and has served as Regent for North Dakota. Tim has served as a member of the NPA Board of Directors and is Treasurer. His is chair of the NPA Finance Committee. Tim graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA degree in communications and received an Executive MBA from the University of Utah. |