Celebrating 25 years of delivering better healthcare

Founded in 2001, Chartis was established with an unwavering mission: to materially improve the delivery of healthcare. Our first client—a children’s hospital—continues to be a client today. 

As Chartis expands its client base and team, the firm articulates its philosophy of “social capital”: a trusted, collaborative community grounded in helpfulness and a shared commitment to the greater good. This belief shapes early culture-building efforts, including the annual firm retreat, regular “office days,” a focus on knowledge management, community engagement, and “the caucus”—a junior staff collective created to deepen connection and strengthen culture. These foundations continue to influence the firm today. 

The Chartis Foundation is established to provide financial support to non-profit organizations delivering essential primary care services to underserved populations. Our inaugural grant supported a vital primary care provider offering critical, post-Hurricane Katrina relief. 

After years of operating virtually and working on-site with clients, we open our first physical office in Chicago—a milestone that gave our growing firm a place to connect, collaborate, and build the culture that continues to shape us today. 

Starting in 2012 and continuing through today, capital partnerships have supported our growth, helped fund our innovation, and expanded our national reach. 

In 2024, Blackstone becomes our capital partner, investing in Chartis to help us deliver on our mission of healthcare transformation. 

Chartis invests in the infrastructure, operations, knowledge management, and colleague experience needed to support its next phase of growth and scale, while also establishing a centralized advanced analytics and research team.

Chartis expands into healthcare IT advisory, informatics, and advanced data analytics by bringing on Aspen Advisors and iVantage Health Analytics. 

Chartis strengthens its clinical transformation capabilities, including care management and high-reliability care, through internal capability building and the addition of The Greeley Company. We also deepened our specialized service line expertise by adding Oncology Solutions. 

Chartis advances industry research and meaningful client engagement through specialized centers. The Chartis Center for Rural Health delivers targeted insights to sustain community care; the Chartis Center for Health Equity & Belonging is focused on creating a liberated healthcare system free of bias, discrimination, and disparities; and the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions provides data-driven insights to build workforce resiliency. 

When COVID-19 creates unimaginable challenge for the industry, Chartis serves as an indispensable partner, helping clients navigate uncertainty, strengthen performance, and build toward a more resilient future. Jarrard also joins the firm at just the right time to provide strategic communications consulting for healthcare in moments of change, challenge, and growth.  

Chartis strengthens its performance and payer transformation capabilities to help clients navigate a changing healthcare ecosystem—adding end-to-end payer expertise through crankfrog, HealthScape Advisors, and PayerAlly and expanding revenue cycle modernization capabilities through Chi-Matic. 

In 2022, we form our Health Equity Advisory Board to shape and advance an ambitious, outcomes-focused health equity agenda, partnering with leading healthcare organizations to drive measurable progress in the communities they serve.

In 2024 we launch our “Believe in better” brand positioning, giving voice to Chartis’ long-standing belief that healthcare can work better for everyone. 

Our annual Service Day invites Chartisans to pause their daily routines to drive meaningful change in their communities. Since 2024, we've partnered with Feeding America, allowing our team to deliver collective, vital support to food banks across the country. 

Chartis is ranked the #1 Healthcare Management Consulting Firm by KLAS for the fifth consecutive year as well as #1 IT Services Firm. 

Chartis scales its IT, digital, and AI capabilities, partnering with clients through considerable technology change by adding Healthlink, creating the Chartis Centers for AI and Strategic Intelligence, and accelerating healthcare AI prototyping and agent development by integrating LeapAI into the Chartis Center for AI. 

Twenty-five years ago, Chartis began with a commitment to being on the vanguard of thought in healthcare. That commitment continues today—and it is more important than ever as AI, technology, and a rapidly changing world reshape what’s possible.