Organizational Scale As A Strategic Issue: The OPEN MINDS Framework For Growth

Despite high demand for health and human services—particularly for consumers with chronic behavioral, cognitive, and health conditions—provider organizations are not in a great strategic and financial position. From hospitals to primary care clinics to community-based organizations, the picture is rocky, largely due to workforce turbulence, more competition (including both retail players and health plans that are buying and developing their own provider capacity), and an influx of private equity money that has created hundreds of new provider organizations.

Every provider organization needs a growth strategy to increase scale (the optimistic side) and to make up for the . . .