Behavioral Health Turnaround Management Firm Specializing in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Programs

Our Senior Partners planned, developed owned and operated psychiatric hospitals prior to starting Schafer Consulting in 1993. As former psychiatric hospital Presidents and CEOs we know how to improve Behavioral Health inpatient, residential treatment, and outpatient program operations for one facility or for a healthcare system.

We have provided Turnaround Management services for Behavioral Health programs and facilities with serious financial, compliance, quality, patient safety, accreditation, and clinical challenges. Our work often includes re-organization and system transformation.

We work closely with Boards of Directors, mental health and substance abuse treatment authorities, regulators, and accreditation entities.

Behavioral Health Turnaround Management Firm Specializing in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Programs

We work closely with Boards of Directors, mental health and substance abuse treatment authorities, regulators, and accreditation entities.

About Our Team

Our interim management team is capable of filling senior executive leadership roles for psychiatric service lines including inpatient, residential, and outpatient programs. Talk to us through our hotline to learn more.

Meet Our Senior Partners

Our senior partners have owned, managed, and operated psychiatric hospitals and health systems throughout the country. Under their leadership, we strive to provide on-the-ground improvement for underperforming behavioral health operations.

As CEOs and vice presidents of behavioral health hospital systems, they have real-world business experience. They tap into this wealth of experience to create solutions that can improve psychiatric service lines.

Turnaround Management

The senior partners of Schafer Consulting provide hands-on turnaround management services. We cater to hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers that offer a wide range of behavioral health services.

Turnaround Operations Assessment and Management Action Plan

By collaborating with senior leadership, the governing body, or ownership of the program, we can complete a behavioral health turnaround operations assessment and develop a management action plan accordingly.

We create an assessment and turnaround plan that defines financial, operational, and quality objectives clearly. Our goal is to spell out the specific activities, responsibilities, and time frames involved in improving the behavioral health program’s financial and clinical performance. The management action plan we create may include:

Instituting Program Changes
Improving Productivity
Increasing Census
Renegotiating Contractual Obligations
Resolving Debt Issues
Correcting Compliance, Joint Commission and DNV Deficiencies
Forming Strategic Alliances
Implementing Other Mission-Critical Changes

Examples of Our Turnaround Management Projects

Restructured and directed turnaround management of a psychiatric service line worth more than $61 million for a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital
Identified $8.5 million in additional financial revenue for a health system behavioral health service line with a 100-bed psychiatric hospital and 13 behavioral health clinics
Financial turnaround of multistate children’s behavioral health system and residential treatment center near default on $100 million bond

Talk to Us

Schafer Consulting has a 25-year track record of improving behavioral health operations, service quality, patient safety, and financial stability. We work primarily with hospitals, academic medical centers, and health systems. In addition, we have been uniquely focused on behavioral health care, and we look forward to speaking with you about your needs.