Ogonoski to Lead Huron Healthcare’s Physician Solution
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2012--
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced that Timothy
Ogonoski and Victor
Arnold have joined the Company as managing directors in its Huron
Healthcare practice. Ogonoski and Arnold will assist clients with physician
services, helping align the interests of physicians and hospitals to
optimize business and operational performance.
“The alignment of physicians with clinical and financial strategies is
critical, and will require a supporting framework of a coordinated and
seamless care delivery structure. This optimized approach is essential
for hospitals to achieve the fundamental changes they need to thrive in
a value-based business model,” said Gordon
Mountford, executive vice president, Huron
Healthcare. “We are pleased to welcome Tim and Vic to the growing
Huron Healthcare team and are confident they will be a valuable resource
for our clients.”
Ogonoski
will be tasked with leading Huron Healthcare’s Physician
solution group. He has more than 20 years of experience working with
large scale hospitals, clinical practices, and school of medicine
operations to improve financial performance, streamline facility and
clinical practice planning, and enhance information technology use and
support. Ogonoski will help Huron Healthcare clients on physician
alignment strategies, operational and financial performance, and
practice infrastructure and management effectiveness.
Arnold
has more than 25 years of healthcare management and consulting
experience assisting large scale hospital, clinical practice and medical
school clients with extensive operations, revenue cycle, and hospital
and physician integration. At Huron
Healthcare, Arnold will be working with clients to provide
accelerated and sustainable performance improvement for academic faculty
practice groups, as well as hospital-owned or managed physician
practices. He will also be working with the existing physician services
teams on both operational and infrastructure improvements to deliver
annual savings.
Ogonoski and Arnold join Huron
Healthcare from AsquaredM Healthcare Consulting, a management
consulting firm they founded in 2006 focused on physician practice
management advisory services.
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 2011 list of the top
20 largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare
or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve
performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, 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 healthcare organizations, Fortune
500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses,
and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more
at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
Source: Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group
Jennifer Frost Hennagir, 312-880-3260
jfrost-hennagir@huronconsultinggroup.com
