Witalis Strategic Alliances

The Governance Institute

Witalis and Company, Inc. is proud to be affiliated with The Governance Institute as a founding member of TGI’s Governance Advisors.

The Governance Institute serves as the leading, independent source of governance information and education for healthcare organizations across the United States. Founded in 1986, The Governance Institute provides conferences, publications, and educational materials for non-profit boards and trustees. Located in San Diego, California, The Governance Institute serves over 11,000 trustees and CEOs through its membership service.

Governance Advisors provide a wide range of assistance, from a one-time board retreat to a comprehensive assessment of governance structure and functioning. Brief descriptions of Governance Advisors services are provided below.

Comprehensive Governance Assessments
The massive changes taking place in the healthcare industry have forced organizations to re-think their governance models. As experts in governance, we provide technically sound and implementable recommendations for structural and practice improvements.

Board Retreats
We are experienced facilitators and speakers for board retreats. We custom-design and facilitate entire board retreats and speak on specific topics. Issues commonly addressed during retreats include:

National health care trends
Governance best practices
Goal-setting and action planning
Governance and Management roles, responsibilities and duties.
Hospital-Physician relations

Board Evaluation and Development
To make good decisions in the rapidly-changing health care environment, boards and committees must be working well. The best way to determine if a governance function is effective is to institute a periodic board evaluation and development process.

We use time-tested standardized tools from The Governance Institute to help evaluate the effectiveness of the entire governance function and of individual board members.

To learn more about The Governance Institute go to: www.governanceinstitute.com.

The Alliance

Witalis and Company Inc. is a founding member of an exclusive alliance designed to better meet the complex needs of health care clients. Together, members of The Alliance offer an integrated array of services to address and resolve client challenges. By networking with firms similar to Witalis in size and quality, we can broaden our range of services.

Expanded services now available through The Alliance include:

Strategic, business, and service line planning
Facilitation and analysis of mergers and strategic alliances
Building positive physician relationships and economic alignments
Medical staff development and compensation planning
Payer contract modeling and support
Facility planning and programming
Expert opinion and valuation services of physician practices and healthcare businesses

The members of The Alliance have agreed to collaborate as a “virtual company” when advantageous to clients or to work separately to meet specific needs. In addition to Witalis & Company, Inc., members of The Alliance include;

Accord Limited
Chicago, Illinois
Edward A. Kazemek, Chair/CEO

Accord assists its hospital and health system clients to achieve successful organizational change, concentrating on strategy, governance, and management effectiveness. Since its inception in 1990, Accord has served over 400 organizations. Learn more about Accord at www.accordlimited.com

Bader & Associates
Potomac, Maryland
Barry S. Bader, Principal

Bader & Associates helps its clients to strengthen the performance of their governing boards with a comprehensive array of board development services. Learn more about Bader & Associates at www.greatboards.org

DGA
Philadelphia, PA
Daniel M. Grauman, President and CEO

DGA Partners has been providing management consulting services in the areas of strategy, finance and data to health care organizations since 1994. Learn more about DGA Partners, Inc. at www.dgapartners.com

Don Seymour & Associates
Boston, MA
Don Seymour, Principal

Don Seymour & Associates provides advice on strategy, physician alignment and governance to senior leaders in hospitals and healthcare systems throughout the United States. Learn more about Don Seymour & Associates at www.donseymourassociates.com.

The ONE Page Business Plan Company

Founded in 1990, the One Page Business Plan Company is an international consulting firm specializing in planning and performance, management systems. Its innovative web-based enterprise management tools are rapidly becoming the choice of CEOs across the country because of their ability to quickly produce a set of plans that the entire organization can understand and implement.

Witalis and Company, Inc. is certified and licensed to provide consulting, training, enterprise software, e-learning systems and workshops to hospitals and health related organizations utilizing the innovative and proven ONE Page Business Plan methodology.

Go to http://www.theonepagebusinessplancompany.com for information and demonstrations.