RB&A 

"Creating Tomorrow's Standards of Excellence Today"

Announcing new  Edition of "Cardiac & Vascular Update" - RB&A's Free Newsletter for Cardiac and Vascular Specialty Physicians, Managers and Directors

Since 1996, Richard Beveridge & Associates, Inc. has become widely recognized by cardiac and vascular physician specialists, group practices, hospital executives and cardiac & vascular program leaders as one of the nation's foremost authorities on cardiac & vascular business planning and implementation. Our consultants have worked with clients in nearly 45 of the states in all aspects of program and practice development from initial planning through complete implementation and ideal market positioning.  

We excel in developing collaboration, trust and commitment among hospital and physician providers.  We recognize the importance of physicians and hospitals working together to provide the highest quality, most cost effective cardiac & vascular services available.  We understand the "turf issues" and design our consulting processes to create highly functional and effective collaborative teams.  For example, a client of ours in a heavy managed care market, doubled their open-heart surgery and interventional catheterization volume in less than 18 months through the implementation of a Strategic Business Plan collaboratively developed by the participating physicians and hospital and lead by RB&A consultants.  Another hospital client of ours has successfully brought together cardiac & vascular specialists in a collaborative organizational structure that provides management and governance to the cardiac and vascular services at the hospital.  Through the collaborative arrangement, decision making has been facilitated with program efficiency and effectiveness enhanced and the program experiencing increases in procedure volume for all participants.  

Our clients include:

• Hospitals
• Multi-Hospital Healthcare Systems

• Individual and Group Physician Practices, including:

  • Cardiologists
  • Cardiovascular Surgeons
  • Interventional Radiologists
  • Vascular Surgeons

In addition, RB&A routinely involves other physician and administrative specialists in the creation of highly-competitive, market-responsive, quality-focused cardiac & vascular health delivery systems, including:

• Emergency Department Physicians
• Critical Care Physicians
• Intensivists
• Neurologists
• Neuroradiologists
• OB/GYN Physicians

RB&A has been a major proponent and believer that the future of cardiac & vascular delivery systems, programs and models will include assessing and treating the entire vascular system and not just isolated components of the system; thus our focus as a firm from our initial company founding has been on cardiac and vascular programs and services. RB&A has been instrumental in developing innovative models that bring the various cardiac, vascular and other specialists together in creating superior healthcare delivery structures and systems with measurably improved patient-focus, financial performance and market share. One of RB&A's primary goals for hospital, physician and physician group practice clients is to create patient-focused processes that achieve  significant improvements in quality of care, market position and financial strength for our clients.

Richard Beveridge & Associates, Inc.'s Mission is to assist cardiac & vascular specialty programs and physicians in enhancing the delivery of high quality, cost effective patient-focused cardiac & vascular services.  These services will be designed to reduce the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease through the provision of leading edge, innovative and customized management, marketing, operational, and financial consulting services.

Cardiac & Vascular Consulting Services:

RB&A provides the highest quality cardiac and vascular business management, marketing, operational and financial consulting services available in today's market to include:

• Strategic Planning

• Scenario Planning

• Organizational Integration

• Mission & Vision Statement Development

• Customer Segmentation

• Strategic Alliance Planning

• Outsourcing Analysis and Planning

• Core Competency Analysis and Development

• Pay-for-Performance Planning

• Market Assessment and Demand Studies

• Marketing Research and Planning

• Quality Improvement Planning using Six Sigma Techniques

• Strategic Business Planning

• New Service and Program Feasibility Studies

• Benchmarking Analyses

• Customer Satisfaction Measurement

• Operational and Organizational Analysis and Process Reengineering

• Organization/Governance Planning

• Staff Development Planning 

• Cycle Time Reduction

• Financial Analyses and Projections

• Revenue Management Planning

• Physician Compensation / Income Distribution Planning

• Procedure Cost Analyses

• Technology Evaluations

• Network/Integration/Merger Planning and Development

• Payer Relationship/Contracting Development and Planning

• Educational Retreat Assistance

• Client-Defined Consulting Based on Need

RB&A is a full service cardiac & vascular business consulting firm.  Our approach to cardiac & vascular consulting is unique among cardiovascular consulting firms-- We help clients, help themselves.  We involve each client and the major participating stakeholders involved with the engagement at a much higher level than other firms in creating a fully customized solution to the client's distinctive needs.  In this manner, we assist clients to become independent rather than consultant dependent. We believe we have accomplished our work when quality, operational, financial and market performance goals have been achieved and the client is capable of sustaining performance at the improved levels, while accomplishing further growth, without the need for RB&A to be on retainer for extended periods.

Thank you for taking time to research our firm. We hope you find our website informative and helpful. Please visit our Contact Page for information on how to reach us.

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