Altius/Aspirus Welcome Packet

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Barry Dennis, Senior Consultant Barry is a Registered Nurse and healthcare leader with over 40 years’ experience in the industry. He holds a Nursing Degree from Union University and an MBA from Western Governors University. He has served in various clinical and executive leadership roles including Chief Nursing Officer, Emergency Medicine, Case Management, EMS, Capacity Management, Access Center Operations, and Hospital Operations. He has held positions in both for-profit and non- profit health systems in addition to VC / PE backed start-up companies. He co-founded Navilife Health Solutions in 2013 which he divested in 2015. For the past ten (10) years he has served in various consulting roles focusing on operational logistics; designing, building and supporting operating models in collaboration with hospitals and health systems across the country in support of revenue growth and operating expense management. His work with hospitals and health systems has included identifying and building mitigation strategies around patient access and throughput to improve access to care and promote patient acquisition and retention. He has worked with for-profit, not-for-profit, community-based, and faith-based hospitals and health systems in addition to critical access hospitals, the VA Health system and post-acute provider networks. His experience has afforded him the opportunity to understand and appreciate the value of key service line strategies and affiliated partnerships with secondary referral sources for hospitals and health systems. He has a deep understanding of the financial challenges across the industry related to patient loyalty, payers and increased cost of delivery and has collaborated with health systems and providers to support organizational objectives to include alternative care delivery models and systemness thinking.

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