Sample Projects
  Pappelbaum, Turner & Associates (PTA) has worked with a wide variety of healthcare clients from across the country. Our work is as varied as our clients.  Our primary focus has been to provide a strategic framework for successful change, especially involving physicians, physician groups, hospitals, and insurance companies.  We are guided by the fundamental belief that all healthcare organizations should strive to enhance patient access and increase the quality of care.

The scope of the projects with which PTA can assist includes:

  • Facilitation, negotiation and strategic planning to guide mergers and acquisitions

  • Assessment, diagnosis, and conflict resolution strategies for difficult organizational issues

  • Strategic planning to guide the successful recruitment of highly recognized physician specialists

  • Facilitation of retreats

  • Developing strategic and business plans for new programs and services

  • Building bridges between organizational and community stakeholders

  • Facilitating partnerships between large organizations through complex negotiations and relationship building

  • Program evaluation that answers the question "Is this program providing a return on our investment?"

  • Program evaluation that provides direction for policy and action 

  
  Examples of some of our projects:

  • Worked with a well-established physician sub-specialty practice to develop a strategic plan to re-energize the practice and to ensure appropriate and sustainable growth.

  • Managed and negotiated the successful acquisition of a large sub-specialty clinical practice on behalf of the physician leaders of the practice acquired.

  • Developed a strategic plan to guide the merger between an independent sub-specialty physician practice and a large academic medical center.

  • Facilitated a strategic planning process for the development of a seamless pediatric delivery system in a metropolitan area of 3 million people. PTA were engaged to provide their expertise to a public sector client to facilitate the creation of an innovative pediatric model that combined medical, educational, and social service resources to ensure healthy children entering school ready to learn.

  • Development of a strategic plan to guide the development of a chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Led and facilitated the development of a 5-year strategic plan for a major healthcare provider organization with annual revenues exceeding $800 million.

  • Consultants to an integrated delivery system in the mid-west, with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion, to provide expert guidance regarding developing physician leadership and involving physicians in the organizations strategic planning and long-term development.

  • Development, facilitation, and implementation of a physician/hospital organization sponsored by a state's largest health insurance company and it's largest healthcare provider organization to serve as the core of an integrated financing and delivery system.

  • Facilitated, as project director, a medical staff merger between two large medical centers. The medical centers had been competitors for over 100 years prior to the merger. PTA successfully merged these two prestigious medical staffs and their 23 departments into a single functioning unit.

  • Acted as project director for the creation of a cancer institute at a large medical center. PTA was engaged to find a system of excellence in cancer care and relocate it to the medical center campus. PTA was able to successfully negotiate an alliance.

  • Provided a major national healthcare managed care organization an assessment regarding their existing relationships with physicians, and recommended a strategic direction for improving these relationships.