Kevin W. Donovan is an experienced healthcare leader with more than 30 years of medical group, hospital and academic health system experience.

His client partners include hospital-affiliated and employed medical groups, academic practices and clinics, clinically integrated networks, integrated delivery systems, federally qualified health centers and large, multi-specialty practices. Kevin works with organizations to develop customized strategies that optimize the clinician workforce, enhance patient access, improve financial outcomes and foster stronger physician alignment.

Professional Experience
Kevin’s experience spans leadership, executive and operations roles, with private practices, hospitals and teaching hospitals. Kevin began his career as a practice manager, taking on roles of increasing responsibility before becoming the Chief Executive Officer of a community health system. Kevin most recently served as the Chief Transformation Officer for a 1,000-member medical group, where he reduced operating losses by 28% on a per-physician basis, improved retention and recruitment and rebuilt the organization’s delivery network.

Skills and Focus Areas
Physician enterprise operations
Assessing and improving all aspects of the physician and provider enterprise, identifying solutions that enhance operational and financial performance, better align clinician compensation and improve patient access

Strategic planning
Analyzing opportunities for optimal service line, practice and system development, with significant focus on growth, practice integration, mergers and acquisitions, but also divestiture and resizing when necessary

Organizational structure and alignment
Aligning and analyzing provider needs to build strong governance, management and structure to further develop networks of care and maximize system cohesion

Professional Achievements

• Built strategies between independent medical groups and health systems, including professional services agreements, joint ventures and recruitment support arrangements
• Designed and implemented multiple physician and advanced practice provider compensation plans for organizations ranging from fewer than 50 and to more than 1,000 clinicians
• Implemented growth strategies for a hospital-employed primary care network, expanding care delivery from 60,000 to more than 100,000 lives
• Led assessments and performance improvement engagements for large medical groups and hospitals, improving operations and financial returns by as much as $35 million
• Negotiated and implemented mergers and acquisitions between private practices, medical groups, community hospitals and academic medical centers
• Performed Provider Needs Assessments, identifying areas for retention and growth of key medical specialties for hospitals and health systems