Conducting a market-driven strategic growth and network capacity plan to optimize acute care assets for a leading health system in the Southwest.
A leading health system in the Southwest engaged ECG to conduct a strategic and facility planning study for its 15-plus acute care and specialty hospitals. ECG defined the future market, defined the growth strategy for complex care at the quaternary referral hospital, and modeled the clinical portfolio for each network hospital. Master facility plans were created for each campus to aid the system in the development of its long-range capital strategy.
ECG’s initial objective was to develop a sophisticated forecasting model to understand market demand for complex care and for each service line over a 10-year horizon. This model then helped inform each hospital’s desired clinical identity, which would serve as the basis for the development of growth strategy, capacity requirements, and master facility plans.
We conducted a market positioning assessment for each hospital, established clinical and geographic priorities, and modeled clinical distribution and low-acuity decantation scenarios by service line and sub-service line. ECG worked closely with system leadership to develop the growth strategy and with individual hospital executive teams to evaluate local market dynamics. The resulting plan codified service line and sub-service-line-level growth projections, bed requirements, and supporting ancillary service capacity requirements over a 10-year period. ECG’s facility team developed master facility plans in support of the growth strategy.
