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CEO ADVISORS EXECUTIVE PROFILE

OVERVIEW
DHG Healthcare CEO Advisors is a team of highly accomplished healthcare leaders firmly grounded in senior level
executive experience. Their passion is to leave a lasting legacy by assisting today’s forward looking CEO’s and
senior executives in leading their organizations on their individualized path toward Risk Capability. Their collective
experience spans virtually every challenge a healthcare leader will experience in a world of dramatic change, and
infuse a strong voice of seasoned healthcare executives into the core DHG Healthcare’s market perspectives and
on-the-ground execution.
Having organized complex organizations and participated on some of the leading healthcare boards in the country,
the CEO Advisors are organized to:
• Provide confidental sounding board reflection to active CEOs and senior executives dealing with
complex problems
• Provide consultation in an effort to challenge and brainstorm ideas
• Work side by side with CEOs and senior executives as they implement improvement plans
• Provide support in educating Boards on transformational strategies
• Help CEOs and senior executives network with other executives who have experience in implementing
related complex strategies
With CEO Advisors, DHG Healthcare further enables its national practice capabilities to address the key challenges of
the day, advance the transformational dialogue and further the achievement of risk capability for the success of current
and future healthcare leaders.
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KEY AREAS OF PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE:
Clinical transformation, hospital and health system financial performance,
network operations and management
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Hospitals and health systems, large multi-state enterprises
David is an accomplished healthcare executive with a proven track record in
clinical transformation, quality, service excellence, financial performance,
mission effectiveness and enhancing the common good. Named by Modern
Healthcare among the Top 25 Minority Healthcare Executives and the 100 Most
Powerful People in Healthcare, David has held a number of prominent healthcare
positions including Chief Operating Officer for Catholic Healthcare Partners
(CHP), now known as Mercy Health which operates 23 hospitals across Ohio and
Kentucky, where he was responsible for total system operations. In 2007, he was
elected a Regent-at-Large for District 3 of The American College of Healthcare
Executives. As Chief Operating Officer of a multi-state healthcare system, David
has leveraged his hospital CEO experience to transform quality, finance and
operations through extensive work with system governance structures.
CEO ADVISORS // LEADERSHIP TEAM
Cultural transformation, financial and operational turnarounds
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Community teaching hospitals, multi-hospital integrated systems and post-
acute service networks
Jeffrey has over 35 years of senior leadership in freestanding community teaching
hospitals, multi-hospital integrated systems and post-acute service networks.
Jeffrey has demonstrated consistent success in leading organizational, financial,
operational and cultural turnarounds, major capital/facility expansion programs,
and strong medical staff and community partnerships. During his 17 year tenure
with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, he firmly established himself as a “go to” leader
for high-value and high-visibility, mission critical assignments. After stabilizing a
significant ambulatory services organization, Jeffrey led two 500-bed teaching
hospitals as their CEO to develop high quality cost-effective cultures.
A. DAVID JIMENEZ
JEFFREY A.
LEIMGRUBER
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Population health strategies and management, cultural transformation, patient
care delivery modeling, startups, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Hospitals, health systems and provider organizations
Thomas is a strategically minded and financially focused proven health care
leader with early career experience delivering high growth and profits from
entrepreneurial ventures including startups, joint ventures and partnerships,
turnarounds, mergers, integrations, and divestments. Thomas was the President
and Chief Executive Officer of Summa Health System, which consists of 7 hospitals
in Northeast Ohio, 2,000 licensed beds, a health plan, a multispeciality physician
group and an Accountable Care Organization. During his leadership, Summa
generated $2.68 billion in economic benefit in the community and sustained
more than 10,000 employees. He led the visioning, execution, and evolution
of the health system’s transformation into a high-performing population health
management organization. Thomas is passionate about building and sustaining
a culture that aligns everyone’s focus on patient care delivery and satisfaction.
Mergers and acquisitions, organizational transformation, market expansion and
affiliation strategies
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Hospitals, health systems, non-profit healthcare organizations
Frank has over 35 years of senior executive healthcare experience and has
led or participated in over $6 billion in healthcare organizational mergers,
collaborations, or affiliations. Most recently Frank has been working with the
WellStar Health System, which consists of 5 hospitals, in its strategic expansion
in the Atlanta, Georgia market. Frank has served as the CEO of several
collaborations as well as the Chief Operating Officer of the Cleveland Clinic
during its expansion period and has dedicated his career to helping non-profit
healthcare organizations in seeking strategic affiliations which strengthen their
financial and market positions. Frank is an expert in transforming healthcare
organizations to achieve high quality cost effective stretch goals.
FRANK L.
LORDEMAN
THOMAS
STRAUSS
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Health care policies and procedures, change management, mergers and
acquisitions, start-ups and physician alignment strategies.
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Hospitals, health systems, health plans and provider organizations
Alan is a senior healthcare executive with a consistent and extensive history
of positive business outcomes in turnarounds, start-ups and merger and
acquisition environments. Alan served in multiple executive leadership roles
with PeaceHealth, a 10 hospital health system located in the Western United
States. An accomplished healthcare executive, he has significantly influenced
healthcare policy initiatives and programs serving on numerous regional and
national boards of directors for major insurance and provider organizations. Alan
has leveraged his change management skills to build a significant employed
medical group, develop a health plan and aggressively grow PeaceHealth.
Organizational transformation, operational performance, governance processes,
strategic planning and quality care excellence and alliance strategies
ORGANIZATIONTYPES:
Hospitals and multi-facility, vertically and horizontally integrated healthcare system
Dennis has an impressive track record for leading organizational transformation and
performance excellence. While President and Chief Executive Officer of Mountain
States Health Alliance (MSHA), a 14-hospital healthcare system in Northeast
Tennessee, he transformed the organization from a single, independent acute-
care hospital to a multi-facility, vertically and horizontally integrated healthcare
system. Throughout his career, he has achieved the highest level of honors for his
management oversight, operational performance and vision. Dennis’ experiences
includes multiple mergers and acquisitions resulting from a rigorous strategic
planning process, role-model governance processes and performance excellence.
Under his leadership, MSHA was recognized as a recipient of the National Quality
Forum’s National Quality HealthcareAward, the only three time consecutive recipient
of the Excellence Award for the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence and
two time finalist for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
DENNIS
VONDERFECHT
ALAN R.YORDY
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ABOUT DHG HEALTHCARE
DHG Healthcare is ranked as a Modern Healthcare top 10 private healthcare consulting firm and serves the
industry with approximately 300 dedicated healthcare industry professionals across consulting, assurance and
tax. DHG Healthcare’s consulting business includes four distinctive service platforms (CFO Advisory, Enterprise
Intelligence, Reimbursement and Strategy) and is sharply focused on the critical business issues facing
healthcare organization’s in today’s transformative environment. Learn more about the services and people of
DHG Healthcare at www.dhgllp.com/healthcare
For more information, email dhghealthcare@dhgllp.com or call 877-424-6324
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