U.S. Health
We envision a society where everyone lives in healthy communities and the benefit of good health is equally accessible to all.
Expertise
FSG helps clients understand and adapt to the changing and increasingly uncertain health care landscape. As focus and payments shift from volume to value of care, FSG can help organizations from the public, private, and social sector develop coordinated and comprehensive strategy and learning systems to enhance organization sustainability and improve community health.
FSG leverages our experience working in non-health areas, such as education and community development, to help clients address the social determinants of health to achieve their health improvement goals. We understand that factors outside the health care delivery system, such as housing instability and conditions, food insecurity, and neighborhood quality, contribute to persistent health disparities that have substantial human, societal, and economic costs. In order to help address this challenging national problem, we have placed health equity at the heart of our work.
FSG has extensive experience building and guiding cross-sector, collaborative, collective impact initiatives in health. Creating optimal health for communities and populations requires a systemic effort. We help clients identify opportunities to align health care efforts among a diverse array of actors, including foundations, hospitals and health systems, health insurers, public agencies, and corporations. Our combination of rigorous data analysis, skilled facilitation, comprehensive systems thinking, and deep passion for social change has helped these stakeholders jointly promote improved health for millions of people.
How We Work
- Adept at working on complex problems through multi-sector collaboration. Improving the health of communities requires an ability and willingness to work with partners from other sectors to address complex health issues and enhance their ability to learn from one another. We have experience advising leading health-focused institutions across sectors (e.g., foundations, providers, insurers, governments), both individually and collectively.
- Fluent in health, health care, and social determinants of health. FSG has deep experience working with clients to design strategies that encompass a broad set of health and health care delivery issues. FSG has a deep understanding of the intersection between public health and health care delivery and has partnered with clients seeking to improve health at the population level through understanding and addressing the complex and interrelated social and environmental conditions that influence health.
- Facility working with clients facing a transforming health care and public health landscape. FSG understands the implications of changes in health care delivery and financing and has a proven ability to co-create solutions and innovate with clients. FSG teams can quickly customize and adapt content and process to meet the unique needs of individual clients. FSG can serve as a facilitative or strategy consultancy as clients’ needs change.
Case Studies
- Texoma Health Foundation
Catalyzing Asset-Based Community Action in Texoma
FSG supported Texoma Health Foundation to engage in a community-centered strategic planning process.
- St. David's Foundation
Unlocking Impact through a Foundation-Wide Strategy
St. David’s Foundation engaged FSG to develop a foundation-wide strategic plan amidst rapid growth to operate as a unified…
- Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health
Leveraging Developmental Evaluation for Community Learning
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health hired FSG to conduct a developmental evaluation of its grant programs and…
- Katz Amsterdam Foundation
Enabling Grantee Learning through Shared Measurement
FSG partnered with the Katz Amsterdam Foundation to enable grantee learning across mountain communities.
- Natrona Collective Health Trust
When Philanthropic Assets Belong to the Community
Natrona Collective Health Trust engaged FSG to co-create a strategic plan in partnership with their community.
- Global Biopharmaceutical Company
Health Equity Strategic Framework & Learning Partner
FSG is currently engaged in a multi-year partnership with a global biopharmaceutical company to support an enterprise-wide health equity…
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