Chartis, a leading healthcare advisory firm, today announced the promotion of three senior partners and welcomed eight new leaders into the partnership across the Chartis family of companies.
“I’m proud to recognize this exceptional group of new partners and senior partners who are making a demonstrable impact for our clients and our firm,” said Chartis President Greg Maddrey. “These leaders’ commitment to make a difference for our clients and to deliver transformative results is helping reshape healthcare for the better.”
Senior Partners
Nathan Hall has been promoted to Digital & Technology Transformation Senior Partner. He has more than 17 years of experience driving engagements at many of the country’s leading academic health systems, integrated delivery networks, and children’s hospitals. Hall has recently directed engagements that strategically repositioned a leading academic health system for growth and differentiation, articulated the unique and powerful value proposition supporting the merger of two integrated delivery networks, and redesigned the physician enterprise organization and underlying funds flow for a large academic health system. He is a strong developer of internal talent and a sought-after mentor among rising leaders within Chartis.
Jon List has been promoted to Financial Transformation Senior Partner. He has 19 years of experience working with healthcare providers. List brings significant experience leading complex, integrated financial and operational transformations and has partnered with standalone community hospitals, regional health systems, national health systems, children’s hospitals, and academic health systems to improve expenses and grow revenues in both financial turnaround and good-to-great transformations. Also specializing in workforce management, he’s expanding the firm’s workforce capabilities, partnering with organizations to align their resources to realize value through people, productivity, analytics, and technology strategies.
Tim Stewart has been promoted to Senior Partner at Jarrard, a Chartis company focused on strategic communications and change management. Stewart has 20 years of experience in high-stakes and complex communications, public affairs, and marketing. He leads Jarrard’s Academic Health Systems practice, which serves dozens of academic health systems across the country. Stewart specializes in guiding executive leadership teams through crisis communications, partnership transactions, and strategic change management initiatives. He also is regarded for his leadership skills internally and is known for empowering colleagues to develop their own voice and expertise.
Partners
Marcia Adams has been named a Clinical Transformation Partner. She is a licensed attorney with more than 17 years of experience in medical staff and graduate medical education operations, bylaws, governance, healthcare privacy, and corporate compliance. Adams designs and implements bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies that are unique to her clients’ operations and needs. Most recently, she collaborated across the Chartis enterprise, working closely with a diverse range of independent medical staffs and executive leadership within a multi-hospital healthcare system to align and standardize governing documents and processes for regulatory and accreditation compliance, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Jason Blight has been named a Digital & Technology Transformation Partner. A standout in business technology innovation project delivery, Blight brings more than 17 years of experience, partnering with health systems to plan, design, implement, and optimize enterprise resource planning technology and improve healthcare finance and supply chain performance. Most recently, he directed an engagement with a 200-person team for a four-hospital academic health system that transitioned to Oracle Cloud Finance and Supply Chain. Innovative and collaborative, Blight creates new offerings and solutions across his Chartis teams and is a strong relationship-builder.
Ben Kodish has been named a Financial Transformation Partner. His healthcare career spans more than 21 years, 19 of which have been focused on revenue cycle management. He serves large academic health systems and physician networks, multi-hospital systems, small community hospitals, and behavioral health networks. Kodish specializes in leading revenue cycle transformation engagements through process improvement and technology optimization focused on patient access, denials management, and patient financial services. In a recent engagement, Kodish helped restructure and redesign billing, insurance collections, and cash posting workflows for a large academic health system.
Anthony Moorman has been named a Strategic Transformation Partner. He has nearly 20 years of experience advising leading health systems and national health plans and directs engagements focused on partnership development and strategy, enterprise strategic planning, and market positioning. He recently led strategic integration planning for one of the nation's most prominent academic health systems, aligning unified academic departments, governance structures, and leadership across multiple academic medical centers to create one of the largest departments of surgery in the country.
Joe Schultheis has been named a Partner in Strategic Transformation. As a leader in Chartis’ Private Equity Advisory practice, he brings almost 15 years of experience providing strategy, financial, and operational advisory services across the healthcare ecosystem. His work spans healthcare-focused investors, academic health systems, integrated delivery networks, physician groups, ancillary service providers, and managed care organizations. Schultheis’ areas of expertise include buy- and sell-side commercial diligence portfolio company strategy and performance improvement, health system partnership development, and enterprise strategic planning.
Crista Stark has been named a Partner at Jarrard, a Chartis company. A veteran healthcare growth and strategy executive, Stark has experience driving strategic growth and value creation in private equity-backed, closely held, and publicly traded organizations. She excels in leading growth strategies, building sales and marketing teams, developing talent, navigating value proposition and infrastructure positioning through regulatory and reimbursement change, and creating high-performance trust cultures. In her three years with the firm, Stark has meaningfully contributed to the maturation of Jarrard’s go-to-market approach and to the firm’s impressive growth trajectory.
Plamen Todorow has been named a Partner in Strategic Transformation. As part of Chartis’ Private Equity Advisory practice, he has more than 15 years of experience in strategy, financial, and operational advisory across the healthcare industry, serving academic health systems, integrated delivery networks, payers, private equity and hedge fund investors, and healthcare real estate investment trusts. His areas of expertise include healthcare strategic planning, commercial due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, partnership transactions, go-to-market strategy, physician-hospital alignment, strategic options assessments, and service line planning. Most recently, he has led large commercial diligence and strategic planning engagements.
Milli Vincent has been named a Partner at Jarrard, a Chartis company. As deputy leader of the firm’s Academic Health Systems practice, her deep understanding of hospital operations and communications helps clients successfully navigate moments of change and opportunity. Vincent often serves as an extension of client marketing and communications teams and as a trusted counselor and thought partner, she leverages her expertise and leadership in audience engagement and change management to inform and successfully manage largescale transformation projects.
About Jarrard Inc.
With offices in the healthcare hubs of Nashville and Chicago, Jarrard Inc. is a specialized healthcare consulting firm devoted to helping leaders during high-stakes moments of change, challenge and opportunity. We use the power of communications, marketing and political strategy to help our clients achieve their most important goals. Our mission is to make healthcare better through our work. Founded in 2006, the firm has worked with more than 1,500 clients in 45+ states and served as a communications advisor on more than $75 billion in announced M&A and partnership transaction communications. The firm focuses on change management, issues and advocacy, and strategic positioning. Jarrard Inc. is a division of Chartis, one of the nation’s leading healthcare advisory firms. For more information, visit jarrardinc.com or follow us @JarrardInc.
About Chartis
The challenges facing US healthcare are longstanding and all too familiar. We are Chartis, and we believe in better. We work with more than 1,900 organizations annually to develop and activate transformative strategies, operating models, and organizational enterprises that make US healthcare more affordable, accessible, safe, and human. With more than 1,450 professionals, we help providers, payers, technology innovators, retail companies, and investors create and embrace solutions that tangibly and materially reshape healthcare for the better. Our family of brands—Chartis, Jarrard, Greeley, and HealthScape Advisors—is 100% focused on healthcare and each has a longstanding commitment to helping transform healthcare in big and small ways. Learn more.
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