HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS CONSULTING
IMH helps healthcare organizations protect the performance of major capital investments by aligning operations to strategy before capital is committed, and sustaining that performance through opening and beyond.
THE IMH DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT → Every engagement starts here
Most healthcare organizations make operational and capital decisions based on projections, assumptions, and plans that haven’t been tested against operational reality.
IMH’s diagnostic assessment changes that by identifying what is actually limiting performance, quantifying the financial impact, and giving leadership the operational intelligence needed to make capital decisions with confidence.
Understand where operations are today: throughput, capacity, staffing, patient flow, and financial performance.
Define the delta between current operations and where the organization needs to be when the new facility opens.
Identify what is actually limiting performance and whether the answer is operational redesign or capital investment
Establish clear operational performance targets, including a six-month post-opening performance check, before the work begins.
IMH supports healthcare organizations through a continuous operational engagement model — aligning strategy, planning, readiness, activation, and optimization to ensure facilities perform as intended from early planning through long-term operations.
Planning & Alignment
Before capital is committed, IMH helps healthcare organizations align operational strategy, workflows, staffing, and facility planning to support long-term performance — so the right decisions are made before they become expensive to reverse.
Set strategic direction, confirm objectives, establish the roadmap for programming, design, and readiness.
Shape the program around patient value, service goals, and operational requirements.
Define staffing, space, technology, and equipment requirements needed to support the program.
Define staffing, space, technology, and equipment requirements needed to support the program.
This Stage Evaluates:
Readiness & Activation
As projects move toward opening, IMH transforms activation from a reactive process into a controlled, measurable operational transition — so the organization opens performing as intended, not stabilizing from a standing start.
Establish readiness strategy, governance structure, and operational roadmap across teams.
Define future-state workflows, operating procedures, and change management priorities.
Prepare the building, systems, and spaces to support safe, efficient care from day one.
Prepare the building, systems, and spaces to support safe, efficient care from day one.
This Stage Evaluates:
Optimization & Performance
After opening, IMH continues working alongside healthcare organizations to optimize throughput, staffing, workflows, and operational performance in real-world conditions — closing the gap between projected and actual outcomes.
Clarify optimization objectives, priorities, and operational challenges to be addressed.
Identify improvement opportunities and establish clear, agreed measures of success.
Review current processes and uncover root causes behind waste, variation, or underperformance.
Review current processes and uncover root causes behind waste, variation, or underperformance.
This Stage Evaluates:
Performance You can Measure
– Jeff Caesar, VP Construction & Real Estate, Community Health Network
If you’re responsible for ensuring a new facility, expansion, or operational change delivers on its intended performance, IMH is built for that challenge. Let’s talk about what your project needs.