CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that Michael Taylor has joined the Company as a managing director in the Healthcare Strategy practice. The Strategy team assists healthcare executives and physician leaders with operational strategy, including organizational design, health system integration, population health, and payer-provider transformation.
“As the healthcare industry continues to substantially transform, hospital executives and physician leaders are faced with the necessity to continuously evaluate their market strategy so they can thrive in the post-reform environment,” said Gordon Mountford, executive vice president, Huron Healthcare. “Michael’s depth of experience as a senior healthcare executive will help clients fully evaluate their strategic options. We are thrilled to welcome him to our growing Strategy team.”
Taylor brings more than 20 years of experience working across the hospital, physician, payer, employer benefits and life sciences industries, providing leadership to multiple strategic growth and operational restructuring initiatives. He most recently served as a managing director at Accenture and previously worked at private equity-owned healthcare companies as an operating executive. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Population Health Alliance, a Washington, DC-based global trade association, and is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of healthcare enterprise strategy, consumerism, and the growing clinical and financial burden of chronic disease and obesity.
About Huron Healthcare
Huron Healthcare is the premier provider of strategic, performance improvement and clinical transformation solutions for hospitals and health systems. In 2015, Huron acquired Studer Group, the market leader in driving healthcare cultural transformation. The combination of Huron and Studer Group is focused on improving healthcare providers’ clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. By partnering with clients, Huron delivers solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses, and enhance physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include leading national and regional integrated healthcare systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and physician practices. Modern Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare fourth on its 2015 list of the largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs, leverage technology, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy, analytics, and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and customized advice and solutions that are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. The Company provides consulting services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune 500 companies and governmental entities. Huron has worked with more than 450 health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers; and more than 400 universities and research institutions. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
