Howard J. Peterson, MHA, Partner.
Mr. Peterson brings significant experience and foresight to each client engagement. He has more than 25 years of healthcare experience, which he has spent developing progressive strategic, financial and operational solutions for a broad range of healthcare clients. His consulting expertise spans throughout the Brightworks service lines, including strategic positioning, critical performance improvement, strategic capital partnerships and strategic transactions. He has worked extensively with community hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory care providers, and physician group practices.
Prior to forming Brightworks Management, Mr. Peterson served as President of Founders Healthcare, Inc., a for-profit physician organization affiliated with the Graduate Health System in Pennsylvania. He also served for 15 years as a hospital executive, including seven years at Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center, where he served as CEO, and eight years at the University of Michigan Medical Center, where he served in various capacities including COO. Recently he has overseen the placement and tenure of the interim management at Hartford Healthcare, Howard University Hospital, Hackettstown Hospital, University of Louisville Medical Center, and University of Connecticut Medical Center.
Mr. Huber has more than 35 years of experience in healthcare financial management and accounting. He brings significant technical financial knowledge to his clients in addition to possessing a senior level perspective on financial planning and strategy in healthcare organizations. Mr. Huber’s consulting work focuses on developing financial strategies related to mergers and acquisitions, evaluating the impact of clinical service line development or expansion, and establishing targets for performance improvement. His experience also includes faculty compensation plan development, faculty practice and medical school operational improvement, and the structuring and administration of managed care contracts. Mr. Huber is an expert in revenue enhancement and leads the firm’s revenue enhancement activities, developing strategies and implementing mechanisms for healthcare organizations to realize revenue enhancement opportunities, while improving cash flow. Mr. Huber has served most recently as interim CFO for Inglis House, Howard University Hospital, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Mr. Campbell has more than 25 years in the leadership and management of hospitals and health systems. He has extensive operational experience and expertise in multiple healthcare settings that includes an established record of leading teaching institutions experiencing severe financial stress through significant organizational change. His leadership also includes the development and implementation of programs to create a service oriented, proactive culture in financially challenged institutions with a history of difficult labor relations.
Mr. Campbell has overseen the placement and tenure of the interim management at Hurley Medical Center, TriHealth, Inc., Mercy Memorial Hospital, Trinity Health, and Blue Care Network of Michigan as well as serving as the Restructuring Officer at El Camino Hospital in CA.
Joan M. Moyer, CPA, Principal.
Ms. Moyer has more than 20 years of healthcare accounting experience. She specializes in billing, reimbursement, and financial management in acute and ambulatory settings. She has extensive experience assisting clients in assessing the financial viability of clinical service line development and expansion, restructuring inpatient accounting departments and evaluating billing and collection arrangements and opportunities. She is also highly skilled in developing business plans and budgets for a broad range of healthcare clients.
Paul Musgrave, MBA, Principal.
Mr. Musgrave has over 30 years of experience in the design, development, and management of purchasing processes, supply chain processes, system integration, and organization development for a variety of large healthcare providers and manufacturers. His areas of consulting expertise include strategic sourcing, strategic planning, and process re-engineering. Mr. Musgrave specializes in the rapid analysis of a company’s supply chain and purchasing processes and the delivery of substantial cost savings associated with implementing aggressive but realistic performance improvement action plans. His healthcare clients have included Howard University Hospital, Howard University, Hurley Hospital, Temple University Hospital, Ochsner Clinic, Ministry Healthcare, Aetna, VHA, and Baxter Healthcare.
Daniel C. Riina, FACHE, Principal.
Mr. Riina is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of consulting and operational management experience in the healthcare industry. During his tenure as a national practice leader within ACS Healthcare Solutions (formerly Superior Consultant Company, Inc. and Chi Systems, Inc.), Mr. Riina successfully directed numerous consulting engagements for regional delivery systems, academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals and niche providers. His past engagements have addressed organization-wide financial improvement initiatives, investment/capital planning decisions, clinical service portfolio analysis, market re-positioning, physician alignment, and affiliation and merger planning. He has a strong reputation for delivering innovative solutions to high-profile clients and as a leader in complex healthcare organizations. Mr. Riina has overseen the placement and tenure of the interim management at Botsford Hospital, Garden City Hospital, and New England Baptist.
Ms. Wickes has more than 20 years of health care finance and accounting experience, focused particularly on the acute- and post-acute health care industries. Ms. Wickes’ consulting expertise includes financial operations improvement through cost reduction, infrastructure redesign, and organizational restructuring. She is also highly skilled in project management, applying her abilities in various high-level interim management positions, including CFO of St. Francis Health System of Pittsburgh, PA and Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, NY. In addition, she has significant experience assisting hospitals and health systems in the areas of financial analysis and reporting, budgeting, strategic planning and financial information systems planning and implementation.
