Strategic Planning Services

The vendor required to provide strategic planning, healthcare transformation, and organizational performance improvement for complex public health systems.
- The resulting strategic plan will define agency 3–5-year strategic priorities, align mission, financial, and workforce goals, and establish a measurable roadmap for execution and accountability.
- Organizational context and market understanding
•    Demonstrate a clear understanding of agency history, mission, demographic profile, payer mix, and role as a safety-net provider. 
•    Assess policy, regulatory, and reimbursement trends affecting safety-net and public hospital systems, particularly within state.
•    Evaluate external factors - including federal and state funding mechanisms, regional health system dynamics, and competitive pressures - that influence agency current and future positioning.
•    Provide informed perspectives on state and federal initiatives impacting safety-net hospitals and identify advocacy or partnership strategies to strengthen agency long-term viability.
- Service line, workforce, and operational assessment
•    Conduct a comprehensive service line analysis, identifying opportunities for growth, realignment, consolidation, or external partnership.
•    Evaluate medical staff and graduate medical education (GME) programs for alignment with agency academic and clinical mission, incorporating quality, patient outcomes, and acuity data. 
•    Review current certifications, designations, and specialty programs for optimization against institutional priorities.
•    Assess workforce structure, recruitment, retention, and succession planning strategies in collaboration with civil service representatives.
•    Recommend position titling, training, and workforce modernization strategies to enhance organizational flexibility and performance.
- Equity, community engagement, and stakeholder strategy
•    Design and implement a comprehensive community engagement process, ensuring participation by patients, residents, community-based organizations, elected officials, and advocacy groups. 
•    Integrate health equity and social determinants of health into the strategic framework and performance measures. 
•    Demonstrate proven experience in equity-driven strategic planning, including measurable approaches to improving access, outcomes, and community trust. 
•    Develop stakeholder maps and engagement strategies that align with agency public mission and transparency expectations.
- Financial and market analysis
•    Perform a comprehensive financial assessment, including analysis of revenue mix, expense structure, balance sheet strength, and cost-containment opportunities. 
•    Develop detailed financial modeling scenarios to project the impact of hr1, utilization shifts, supplemental payment changes, and reimbursement reform. 
•    Conduct market and competitive analyses, including leakage, referral patterns, and partnership or joint-venture opportunities. 
•    Evaluate Medicaid and medicare reimbursement structures, state financing mechanisms, and potential pathways for increased funding or value-based arrangements.
•    Provide actionable recommendations to improve agency financial resilience and long-term sustainability.
- Real estate and capital strategy
•    Conduct a facilities and capital assets review, including space utilization, condition assessment, and alignment with clinical service needs. 
•    Evaluate the housing campus and nursing home facility, identifying modernization, repositioning, sale, or partnership options to maximize community impact and financial performance. 
•    Align the capital investment strategy with service line priorities, facility master planning, and transformation initiatives.
- Implementation and measurement framework
•    Facilitate development of an implementation roadmap with milestones, metrics, and accountability structures. 
•    Identify required operational, cultural, and financial enablers for plan execution.
•    Recommend data analytics frameworks and dashboards for tracking progress, performance, and outcomes. 
•    Develop change management and communication strategies to ensure alignment and sustained execution.
- Governance, board, and leadership alignment
•    Facilitate board and executive workshops to align strategic priorities, governance responsibilities, and oversight structures.
•    Recommend a governance and reporting framework that links performance metrics to board oversight and decision-making. 
•    Provide guidance on communication and accountability protocols between leadership, management, and external stakeholders. 
•    Offer best-practice insights on board engagement and strategy execution from comparable public health systems.
- Risk, compliance, and organizational resilience
•    Identify key internal and external risks—financial, operational, regulatory, and reputational—that could impede plan implementation. 
•    Evaluate compliance and funding dependencies, including those linked to Medicaid, labor, and regulatory obligations. 
•    Recommend risk mitigation strategies, contingency planning, and monitoring frameworks. 
•    Support agency in embedding risk management practices into the overall strategic performance structure.

- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 19, 2025