Nick Ziemba is a Partner at Chartis with more than 20 years of strategy, leadership, planning, and advisory experience. In his 10 years with Chartis, he has helped provider organizations tackle major challenges to their strategic positioning, to financial sustainability, and to their clinical and academic missions more broadly. In this work with academic and community health systems, his advisory efforts have focused on mergers and acquisitions, organizational redesign and strategy, facility and capital planning, academic alignment, and various service line initiatives.
Nick worked on the development of the Beth Israel Lahey Health merger in Eastern Massachusetts, supporting or leading efforts in all phases of the partnership process, from early-stage vision setting and synergies assessments through pre-merger integration planning and support to the regulatory approval process. More recently has supported health systems with confidential merger explorations, medical group partnerships, medical school partnerships, new hospital planning assessments, merger integration planning and implementation, and funds flow redesign.
At the 2015 Indian Health Symposium at Dartmouth College, Nick delivered remarks detailing his advisory work supporting health insurance enrollment initiatives and community outreach for the Indian Health Service. He also co-authored and co-edited The Strong Gray Line, a collection of combat memoirs from his West Point class.
Before earning his MBA and joining Chartis, Nick served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army where he led combat units of up to 200 Soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan, providing population security, advising indigenous forces, developing local governance, and supporting humanitarian relief.
Nick received his Master of Business Administration with honors from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School.
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