Planning For Long-Term Sustainability – The Margins Have It

Consistency and stability have seemingly been lost over the last two years. Dramatic shifts in consumer preferences, new products, government funding, the pandemic, and health plans models of care have changed a relatively stable behavioral health market into a tumultuous and everchanging challenge for specialty provider organizations to remain a part of. And in some ways, for-profit organizations have it easier with explicit use of profits to shareholders and an easier ability to recruit and top talent with better offerings.

Sustainability and the use of excess margin is not quite so clear in non-profit organizations. Theoretically, those profits . . .