Boldly defining the future of healthcare
Healthcare is rapidly evolving in pursuit of a more accessible, affordable, and reliable system of care for all. Chartis partners with healthcare leaders to reimagine their future and build high-impact strategies that prepare them for what’s next.
Our solutions
- Enterprise Planning & Growth
- Service Line Planning
- Digital & Technology Transformation
- Consumer Access
- Network Strategy
- Managed Care & Revenue Strategy
Bespoke strategies to meet your unique needs
Navigating the healthcare landscape ahead requires a strong vision, deep expertise, aligned values, and powerful analytics. We work with you to design strategies that help your organization thrive—and shape the healthcare landscape—by uncovering the relevant data insights to determine what's possible, based on your current market context and your goals.
Bringing together the art and science of strategic planning
Chartis is uniquely positioned to help you navigate your most pressing challenges—to help you shape your future, the future of healthcare, and community health. By working collaboratively with industry leaders, we define the "art of possible": marrying future-state aspirations with the realities of your market and organizational context.
60% of our projects over the past three years have been repeat clients seeking additional strategic advisory services.
Building effective strategies is about navigating change. We work with executive leaders to create a forward-looking future state that ties to the practical realities of your organization’s points of differentiation, financial position, culture, health equity requirements, and strategic aspirations.
From partnership vision to fully integrated: How Chartis helped form Beth Israel Lahey Health
Chartis helped form Beth Israel Lahey Health from earliest strategic partnership discussions through integration.
Our strategy teams have worked in more than 90% of the largest US metro areas, providing deep local knowledge and context to inform strategic planning for our clients."
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Meet our Strategic Planning leaders
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation and co-leads the Strategic Planning practice.
Brett Pederson
Brett Pederson is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation and co-leads the Strategic Planning practice.
Brian Spendley
Brian Spendley is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation. He brings over 10 years of experience providing strategic advisory services to leading health systems, provider organizations, healthcare investors, and their portfolio companies.
Brian Thygesen
Brian Thygesen is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation. Brian has nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare serving as a strategic advisor to leading academic health systems, children’s hospitals, and community-based delivery networks.
Sue Anderson
Sue Anderson is a Partner in Strategic Transformation and has more than 20 years of healthcare management consulting experience advising hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and physician practices.
Mark Bourdenko
Mark Bourdenko is a Partner in Strategic Transformation. At Chartis, Mark has served leading academic health systems, community health systems, children’s hospitals, payers, and private equity investors across a range of strategic planning initiatives.
John Narcross
John Narcross is a Partner in Strategic Transformation. He has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare strategic planning, system formation, and public policy, both as a management consultant and as a health system executive.
Benjamin Perry
Benjamin Perry is a Partner in Strategic Transformation and has more than 13 years of healthcare experience, 11 of which have been spent in consulting.
Michael Saltzman
Michael Saltzman is a Senior Partner in Strategic Transformation. He has over 10 years of healthcare experience in consulting and strategic planning.
Amy Woodrum
Amy Woodrum is a Partner in Strategic Transformation. Her primary focus has been advising academic medical centers on strategic planning initiatives and developing advanced financial modeling to support strategic partnerships.
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee serves as the firm’s Chief Strategy Officer and co-leads the Strategic Transformation Line of Business. Cindy advises healthcare leaders in crafting their futures through scenario planning that considers how the healthcare environment is likely to evolve in the coming years. She also specializes in partnership formation, value-based care strategies, and alignment/funds flow.
