CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 5, 2012--
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced that the Company’s Huron
Healthcare practice has been named one of Modern Healthcare’s
2012 Largest Healthcare Management Consulting Firms. Huron Healthcare
ranked No. 3 for the third year in a row.
“Our continued success and growth is a testament to our professionals’
deep industry expertise and the effectiveness of our solutions,” said Gordon
Mountford, executive vice president, Huron
Healthcare. “We look forward to continuing to expand our solutions
to empower our clients to meet the challenges and capitalize on the
opportunities presented in this very dynamic market.”
Modern Healthcare’s 2012 list included 80 consulting firms, which
were ranked according to 2011 provider revenue. In 2011, Huron had total
provider revenue of $314 million. The Company has been ranked in the top
five of Modern Healthcare’s Largest Healthcare Management
Consulting Firms for the past five years.
“Huron Healthcare has been among the top three firms on the Modern
Healthcare ranking for several years. This reflects the ongoing
expansion of our collaborative partnerships with our clients. We
continue to help hospitals and health systems navigate their many
challenges – in particular, improving the quality of care, as well as
capturing margin improvement opportunities with clinical
transformation,” said Dr.
Andrew Ziskind, managing director and Clinical
solutions leader, Huron Healthcare. “Our clinical solutions are
directly in line with our clients’ needs for surviving and thriving in a
post-reform environment.”
“Achieving a place on the list is a testament to the work that our
people do every day for clients across the country,” said Jim
Gallas, managing director and Performance
solutions leader, Huron Healthcare. “We’re proud to have saved our
clients more than $1 billion in the past five years by implementing our
proven financial and operational performance improvement solutions so
they can meet their missions and better serve their patients and their
communities.”
Huron
Healthcare is part of the Company’s Health and Education Consulting
segment, which represented 67 percent of Huron’s total revenues in 2011.
Huron Healthcare is a premier provider of clinical and performance
improvement solutions for hospitals and health systems, and has worked
with more than 350 hospitals and academic medical centers.
Earlier this year, Huron Healthcare released Leading
Through Transformation: Top Healthcare CEOs’ Perspectives on the Future
of Healthcare, Insights from the Huron Healthcare CEO Forum. The
report shares insights from CEOs, and from executives outside the
healthcare industry, who participated in the second annual Huron
HealthcareCEO
Forum.
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. 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