What We Do

• We help communities, healthcare institutions, public health groups, and not-for-profit and government agencies develop and sustain highly effective partnering relationships to achieve their preventive medicine and public health objectives
• We assist these organizations in such activities as defining or refining the mission and strategic direction, strategic planning, strategic design of preventive medicine or public health initiatives, and effective use of partnering relationships to achieve goals
• Further, we assist with developing community action plans, focus groups, health program evaluations, mentoring and leadership development,
• We work with our clients in consulting and technical assistance roles; we sometimes also fill executive positions at those organizations

Our Goals

• Use preventive measures to reduce risk factors and improve the health of populations in various American communities, prolonging life and benefiting the community
• Improve access to healthcare; reducing healthcare disparities
• Develop and implement public health initiatives that will ensure that at-risk community populations have the knowledge and resources to change attitudes and behavior toward improving health
• Work with professionals in public health and preventive medicine positions to address gaps in plans and resources for communicable disease control, bioterrorism, and disaster preparedness  
• Assist with public health policy advocacy

 

Neal R. Holtan,     M.D., M.P.H., M.A.    Director, Preventive    Medicine & Public     Health Consulting    Division

Marion Warwick,     M.D., M.P.H.    Medical    Epidemiologist,     Preventive    Medicine & Public     Health Consulting    Division

Our Approach

Our approach to consulting in preventive medicine and public health is described in this framework:

• Commitment to evidence-based, data driven, technology-assisted methodologies of health and public health practice
  
• Recognition that the whole-person orientation to personal and community health may get lost when organizations only pursue task-focused, tactical strategies
  
• Belief that the the Partnership Continuum Model partnering process and the Six Partnering Attributes of successful partnering are necessary tools in achieving balance between science and practice and between tasks and relationships
  
• Reliance on the methodology and approach of Partnering Intelligence to build the relationships needed in preventive medicine and public health
• Facilitate a relationship's keys to success such as mutual trust and respect, collaborative communications, and new behaviors for dealing with conflicts of interest that could impact priorities or outcomes

Our Expertise. The principals in our Preventive Medicine & Public Health Consulting Division and our affiliated consultants have experience not only as clinicians but as administrators in medicine, nursing, and public health. We have expertise in:

• Community health assessment
• Epidemiology
• Program evaluation
• Qualitative process evaluation

Besides strong skills in the successful application of the core functions of public health, we have experience in:

• Creating Web-based continuing medical education
• Strategic planing
• Career coaching for health professionals
• Hospital administration
• Mortality reviews
• Public health administration
• Peer review
• Quality improvement

Because of our grounding and experience as clinicians, our group members are very successful in assisting professionals as leaders, in relating to those individuals as peers, and in fostering their success through the Six Partnering Attributes.