Craig Ahrens | Source | SVP of Strategy and Growth at CareRev
Craig Ahrens
Craig Ahrens is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth at CareRev. As a healthcare innovation/startup leader, consultant, and digital health transformation executive with more than 20 years of experience in public and private institutions, his expertise in both healthcare startups and digital health investments offers him the chance to share unique perspectives.
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Labor Costs and Quality of Care: A Balancing Act
Mr. Ahrens is a professional healthcare leader, consultant, and transformation/innovation executive with over 20 years of experience. His expertise as a board member, executive, and private equity advisor concerning healthcare investments, large health systems, and academic physician/hospital relations, strategy, and operations provides him with a range of skills essential to evaluate and address difficult healthcare industry issues.
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Lowering the financial burden of care delivery while ensuring quality of delivery is a significant challenge. As such, even as labor is understandably a primary target for cost cutting, it is important to realize that quality professionals are more than an expendable budgetary item – they are the most significant input for quality care. Consequently, in order to meet increasingly complex patient care demands, it is imperative for leaders to develop cost effective, creative and innovative care delivery models that don’t simply reduce but optimize the use of high-cost and high-quality clinical professionals.
