Stroudwater Associates is a leading national healthcare consulting firm serving healthcare clients exclusively.

We focus on strategic, operational, and financial areas where our perspective offers the highest value.

We’re proud of our 35-year track record with rural hospitals, community hospitals, healthcare systems, and large physician groups.

As a specialty healthcare consulting firm, Stroudwater focuses on mission-critical strategic, operational, and financial improvement opportunities. We eschew rigid product offerings and prepackaged solutions in favor of comprehensive assessment and diagnosis that we combine with tested approaches and strategies from our experience in the field. We implement our work from the perspective of a trusted advisor to our clients. We remain available to ‘walk the walk’ with our clients and rise to the challenge of tailoring solutions to each unique client need.

Stroudwater consultants are a team of clinicians, hospital managers, corporate officers, financial analysts and engineers, performance improvement experts, insurance executives and others. Stroudwater is recognized nationally in a variety of healthcare provider types and markets, and we work in an average of 45+ U.S. states each year. Our broad market exposure provides understanding of and experience with all elements of the healthcare delivery system. We use this experience to serve a wide range of clients in an increasingly interconnected healthcare environment.

Partnering with Healthcare Leaders to Impact Community Health

As national leaders in healthcare advisory and fierce advocates for a compassionate and quality healthcare delivery system, we focus on improving the strategic, operational and financial capabilities for rural and community hospitals, healthcare systems, and large physician groups.

We are committed to our mission of improving healthcare provider performance with the highest value advisory services that are customized for each client’s individual needs. Considering the complexity of these problems, we believe that client engagements require leadership by deeply experienced advisors. Our team is comprised of clinicians, hospitals managers, corporate officers, financial analysts, and insurance executives who are committed to approaching each client engagement with a thorough and comprehensive assessment and diagnosis.

Our broad market exposure and extensive experience provide a comprehensive understanding of all elements of the healthcare delivery system. We use this experience to serve a wide range of clients in an increasingly interconnected healthcare environment. We then develop approaches that are actionable and can generate both rapid and long-term results.

Stroudwater Associates Background

Founded in 1985, Stroudwater has grown from a small partnership between friends to a nationally respected healthcare consulting firm with colleagues and clients in all 50 states. We serve a healthcare market consisting of government and quasi-government agencies, community-based organizations, major academic and tertiary centers, rural and community hospitals, physician groups, and provider organizations. Our team holds bold, independent points of view based on diverse perspectives and experience. Our passion for healthcare stems from recognizing how precious healthcare resources are to the fabric of the communities served by our clients. With a mission to build capacities and scale to improve the health of 40 million people annually, we approach each client engagement with focus, energy and the drive to get it right.

We are committed to providing a beacon of strength, guidance, and direction to ensure our clients’ success and sustainability through whatever storms they may weather.

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