Today, The Chartis Group, a leading provider of comprehensive advisory services and analytics to the healthcare industry, announced that Sudhi Rao has joined the firm as a Director in the Performance practice.
Rao has 35 years of healthcare experience that includes more than two decades of operational consulting. He specializes in enterprise-wide transformation through cost improvements, process efficiencies, and optimized financial performance. His experience also includes delivering results in cost improvement, logistics and strategic redesign for non-labor/supply chain services, surgical and procedural care service optimization, clinical workflows, and workforce management. He drives results through successful change management, superior stakeholder engagement, and alignment toward transparent performance metrics across the organization.
“We are excited to welcome Sudhi to our Performance practice,” Rob Gamble, Director and Performance Practice Leader said. “His extensive experience in financial and operational improvement, combined with his change leadership and clinical expertise, will provide healthcare organizations with the sustainable solutions they seek to remain competitive and drive results in today’s demanding environment.”
Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Rao held senior-level positions at FTI Health Solutions where he led numerous operational transformations and implemented innovative non-labor supply chain performance improvement and perioperative redesign and implementations. He also previously served as a director at Owens & Minor, provided labor productivity and supply chain services at EY, and served as an administrator and clinical coordinator at Continuum Health Partners (now part of Mt. Sinai Health System) in New York City.
Rao received his Master of Public Administration from New York University, and his Bachelor of Science in nursing from Bangalore University, India. Rao is a Six Sigma Green Belt and a registered nurse. He is a member of the American Hospital Association of Resource Managers and the American Nursing Association.
