Navigating the Path to Healthcare Excellence
We enable healthcare providers to grow and enhance their financial performance through strategy and innovation.
We enable healthcare providers to grow and enhance their financial performance through strategy and innovation.
Mark J. Dubow, MSPH, MBA
Mark is a national expert in strategy development and facility planning for healthcare organizations, with an emphasis on helping providers capitalize on emerging innovations. He has more than 40 years of healthcare consulting experience and has directed engagements for healthcare organizations throughout the nation, including health systems, community and teaching hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory care providers, post-acute care organizations, health plans, and physician organizations. Mark’s work focuses primarily on strategic planning for hospitals and health systems, ambulatory care center strategy and facility development, enhancing the effectiveness of clinical service lines, mergers and alliances, and alignment.
Mark holds an MBA degree from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science degree in public health, with an emphasis on healthcare planning and policy, from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Colgate University.
For an in-depth look at Mark's professional experience, view his LinkedIn page.
Ten High Impact Initiatives for 2024
Prioritize Service Lines During Challenging Times
Choosing the Optimal Strategic Relationship
Address "Sacred Cows" to Get Past COVID-19 Shock
Links to additional articles and blogs may be accessed through Mark's LinkedIn page.
Dubow, Mark. "Innovation." In Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fifth Edition, 265-276. Health Administration Press, 2024.
Dubow, Mark, and Inniger, Meredith. "Intensifying Competition." In Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fifth Edition, 277-286. Health Administration Press, 2024.
Faculty member of the American College of Healthcare Executives for more than 20 years. Recent courses taught multiple times annually include:
“Hospitals and Health Systems of the Future: Transforming to Thrive” and “Disruptive Innovators: Rise to the Challenge".
Additional presentations at the annual national conferences and regional meetings of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, American Hospital Association, and the Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development, among others.
Guide collaborative work sessions and retreats, helping participants gain new insights into emerging trends and new opportunities.
Support the development and prioritization of key initiatives and implementation plans.
Leverage interactive facilitation techniques to drive decisions, actionable plans, and accountability for implementation.
Streamline analytics and processes to help teams achieve a focused set of goals that drive both short-term and long-term success, in alignment with a financially-driven strategic plan.
Ensure the resulting enterprise strategy is consistent with emerging healthcare industry trends and enables the transition from a fee-for-service to a value-based payment environment.
Assess the financial feasibility of and establish strategies for adding new clinical components, geographic footprint expansion, regional alignment among care sites, and implementing destination centers in support of cardiovascular, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic, women's services, behavioral health and other clinical services.
Develop competitive differentiation and growth initiatives.
Apply market opportunity and financial feasibility analyses to establish ambulatory care strategies that enhance access to care, revenue diversification and growth, as well as physician alignment, operational, and payer objectives.
Select among “build”-“buy”-“partner” alternatives to optimize time to market impact, clinical and operational expertise, and effective use of scarce capital.
Determine the need for and benefit of forming strategic partnerships.
Identify and evaluate potential candidates.
Assess the strategic, financial, and operational impact of potential relationships.
Physician practice management and performance improvement.
Physician compensation.
Managed care and payer strategy for physician organizations.
Form and refine various physician alignment structures that drive clinical and financial performance
Evaluate and prioritize alternative sites, identifying the optimal service portfolio, preparing estimates of future utilization and resource need (facility, equipment, clinical staff) specific to acute, ambulatory and post-acute projects.
Guide your teams and offer objective feedback as they develop initiatives for: enterprise strategy, service line growth, ambulatory care, physician alignment and determining the resources (facility, equipment, clinical staff) needed.
I look forward to discussing your initiatives with you. Let's join forces to tackle your challenges collaboratively.
Send me a message via the 'Contact' form, email me directly at mdubow@dubowstrategicsolutions.com, or call me at (818) 384-6820.
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