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Outpatient care centers

Outpatient care centers provide important services ranging from urgent care to women’s health to imaging. They collaborate with and support patients, providers, and communities. Our research-driven insights and education tools help outpatient care center leaders make sense of the broader market dynamics so that they can position their services for success.

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Urgent care center pro forma

Our tool has the data you need to determine if there’s urgent care demand in your market and if an urgent care center investment would be profitable.

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Top drivers of change in the maternal and reproductive health market

Read about the four key drivers reshaping the delivery of care in the maternal and reproductive health market.

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Site-of-care shift resource library

Access our resources to help you understand trends, forecast the future, and prepare for shifts in how care is delivered.

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Disruptor report: Freestanding EDs

Learn how freestanding EDs are positioned to disrupt established provider and health plan businesses by altering utilization patterns and complicating care management efforts.

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The role of crisis care in behavioral healthcare

Crisis response services are often patients’ first entry point for behavioral healthcare. Learn how to help the most at-risk patients prior to escalation.

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Strategic planning priorities
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The latest on site-of-care shifts

Advisory Board’s C-suite cheat sheet series includes more than 65 cheat sheets to quickly give you the knowledge you need to discuss issues with confidence and understand how they impact provider-supplier sales relationships. Some of our most popular cheat sheets include:

Also, check out our jargon dictionary to demystify healthcare acronyms and vocabulary.

Here are six key findings from our survey of health system strategic planners about their expected future strategies and priorities:

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

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

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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5 key takeaways from Advisory Board’s site-of-care shift summit

Gain perspectives from over 400 healthcare leaders from across the industry on how different factors will impact site-of-care shifts.

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The role of specialty outpatient care in behavioral healthcare

Specialty outpatient behavioral health programs are offered by a range of organizations. See what they can do and which kinds of patients they can best serve.

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Imaging market trends

Download our ready-to-present slides to learn everything you need to know about the major trends impacting imaging services in 2022 and beyond.

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Caring for America’s seniors: A rapidly evolving landscape

Today’s healthcare system is not set up to care for our aging population. Explore our library of resources to help our industry act together to meaningfully improve how we care for seniors.

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Emily leads a team of service line and consumer-focused researchers committed to helping members discover growth opportunities.

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Outpatient care centers

Urgent care center pro forma

Top drivers of change in the maternal and reproductive health market

Site-of-care shift resource library

Disruptor report: Freestanding EDs

The role of crisis care in behavioral healthcare

5 key takeaways from Advisory Board’s site-of-care shift summit

The role of specialty outpatient care in behavioral healthcare

Imaging market trends