Keith has over 30 years of experience in providing business advice to health care organizations throughout the U.S. As Principal and founder of ACG, he assists his clients by providing a broad range of services that include strategic, service line, medical staff, managed care, regulatory, and financial planning.
Keith has performed and directed planning engagements for a wide range of health care organizations including urban and rural acute care and specialty hospitals, academic medical centers and health systems, payers, home health and hospice organizations, and physician group practices. Representative services include:
Provided strategic and business planning assistance for a number of service lines including ambulatory services and ambulatory surgery, cancer, cardiovascular, home health/hospice, neurosciences/orthopedics, and behavioral health.
Prepared and directed development of strategic plans for a variety of organizations.
Assisted clients with numerous Certificate of Need projects and appeals in various states, including litigation support/expert testimony assistance.
Performed strategic analyses of service area and projected bed need and ancillary service volumes for numerous hospitals and hospital systems.
Assisted in numerous master facility plans for hospitals and hospital systems.
Facilitated numerous planning retreats and strategy sessions for hospitals, health systems, physician groups, and home health agencies.
Performed strategic affiliation analyses for numerous health care organizations.
Designed demand projection models for a wide range of health care services.
Prepared and directed development of financial feasibility studies for hospitals, multi-hospital systems, home health agencies and hospital programs.
Prior to founding ACG, he worked as a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young LLP, and as a consultant with Jennings Ryan & Kolb and with the Massachusetts Determination of Need Program. Keith is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Georgia Association of Health Care Executives, Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development, and Healthcare Financial Management Association. Keith has published a variety of articles and spoken on topics in health care planning and national and local trends in the health care industry.
Keith holds an MBA with a concentration in Health Care Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
