First Chesapeake Group

The First Chesapeake Group, Inc. (FCG) was established in 1987 to provide consulting services to senior executives, lawyers, and government officials in the healthcare industry who are responsible for leading their organizations in today's complex and changing environment. In addition to our litigation support and expert witness services, FCG's ser... vices encompass strategic planning, financial and operational planning and analysis, hospital replacement and expansion projects, information systems planning and management, program evaluation, and payment system analysis and design. The firm's clients include hospitals, insurers, health care systems, managed care organizations, state healthcare agencies, and law firms. A major FCG focus is strategic planning. This includes planning for major re-organizations, mergers, acquisitions, and turnarounds, as well as strategic planning for financial and information systems. The firm also does program planning in specific areas and has strong experience in teaching hospitals and graduate medical education. FCG works with boards of directors and executive leadership of healthcare organizations to formulate plans. FCG also performs detailed marketplace assessment, competitor analysis, and quantitative and qualitative reviews of the organization to create business and implementation plans. As a second focus, FCG provides implementation services to achieve strategic change. These services include operations improvement, cost accounting, and cost reduction. FCG has extensive experience in analyzing organizational efficiency and effectiveness, benchmarking, setting operational and financial goals with the organization, and then helping achieve those goals. We have substantial successful experience using these skills in turnaround situations. FCG realizes the strategic importance of identifying the costs of health care services, and responding quickly to the local marketplace to improve the quality, access, and cost of health care. FCG's third emphasis is litigation support and ...Read More