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Facility and design firms help their healthcare clients build a vision for the future. Our research-driven insights and education tools help facility and design firms understand the challenges and opportunities facing health systems and physician organizations so that they can position their services for success.


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Strategic planning priorities

We surveyed health system strategic planners to find out their top challenges and priorities. Here are our six key findings:

  1. Financial challenges persist despite rebounds in utilization.
  2. Volume is migrating to ambulatory settings.
  3. Disruptors are targeting profit centers, rewiring care paths.
  4. Respondents are trying to optimize existing portfolios.
  5. Health systems are focusing on margin, mission, and workforce priorities.
  6. Capital spending constraints are limiting strategic flexibility.

Understand physician groups

Refer to our comparison chart to understand and compare key elements from each for the five types of physician groups:

  • Physician-owned medical group

  • Enablement partner

  • National medical group franchise 

  • Virtual care organization

  • Health system-owned medical group

Site-of-care shifts

The U.S. healthcare system is experiencing four significant and simultaneous shifts in where care takes place. Learn more about these trends, including tools modeling data around past and future shifts, in our site-of-care shifts resource library.


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Colin Gelbaugh

Director, Health system research
Colin leads executive strategy research for Advisory Board's health system team.

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