Huron Healthcare Managing Director to Focus on Supply Chain and Overall Performance Improvement at Hospitals and Health Systems

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Huron Consulting Group (HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that Daniel L. May has joined the Company as a managing director in its Huron Healthcare practice. Mays extensive knowledge of supply chain and deep experience with healthcare operations will help Huron Healthcare clients manage comprehensive process redesign and margin improvement engagements.

Todays budget constraints require that hospitals adopt an approach to expense management that is broader, deeper, and more strategic than ever before, said Gordon Mountford , executive vice president, Huron Healthcare . In an increasingly uncertain healthcare environment, hospitals must prepare now for the challenges ahead. Dan has extensive experience helping hospital and health system clients redesign processes to optimize performance. We are pleased to welcome him to the Huron Healthcare team.

May has more than 20 years of healthcare consulting experience assisting clients with large financial improvement projects for integrated health systems. At Huron Healthcare, May will be working with multi-facility health systems, community hospitals, and childrens hospitals across the country to optimize margins by improving supply chain, revenue cycle, and labor management processes. Prior to joining Huron Healthcare, May served as a partner and managing director at Computer Sciences Corporation where he led large financial improvement, process redesign, and technology optimization projects for integrated health systems.

About Huron Healthcare

Huron Healthcare partners with clients to provide comprehensive performance improvement solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses, and increase physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include national and regional integrated healthcare systems, leading academic medical centers, community hospitals and physician practices. Modern Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2011 list of the top 20 largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter: @Huron

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. The Company teams with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, Fortune 500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

Huron Consulting Group
Jennifer Frost Hennagir, 312-880-3260
jfrost-hennagir@huronconsultinggroup.com

Source: Huron Consulting Group

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