Principal involvement
About Richard D’Aquila
Large health system consultancies are not only prohibitively costly. They frequently lead with senior members and quickly pivot to junior staff when work begins.
With us, this is never the case.
Destination Health Managing Director and founding Principal Richard D’Aquila remains directly involved in every engagement from initiation to completion.
His direction and collaboration defines all assessment, strategic planning, and implementation. His 20 years of success in building and operating academic health systems in highly competitive environments is applied to each action we take.
Methodology: Emphasis on flexibility
The most important attribute of our work model is flexibility.
There are multiple ways to access the expertise of our firm.
We are able to conduct broad-scale system assessment designed to identify opportunities for system growth and performance enhancement. This tool and process is unique and proprietary to our firm.
Or, we can approach individual projects and transformation efforts with a project-specific work plan and defined deliverables.
In any scenario, there are benefits from the experience and analytics we bring to complex system building situations, as well as from our flexibility around execution and implementation.
The Destination Health Assessment Process
Using a tool and process unique to our firm, we perform a comprehensive system audit that pinpoints and identifies opportunities in the following dimensions of system performance:
• Governance / medical school linkages
• Care signature
• Clinical services and service lines
• Organizational design and effectiveness
• Technology
• Leadership accountability
• Employee engagement
• Medical staff engagement
• Financial performance
• System integration
This process, when complete, establishes a framework for strategic action and implementation.