About

Avanza means to progress, move forward, advance
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avanza (verb): (1) to advance; (2) to make progress; (3) to move forward

You can count on Avanza’s strategic guidance when it matters most. Each member of our highly skilled team has a minimum of 15 years of leadership experience in one or more aspects of the healthcare field. And with experience working throughout the United States, we can help you find local solutions to local problems and still meet the myriad demands of state and federal regulators.

Avanza’s custom-built, multidisciplinary teams provide precisely the expertise you need and nothing you don’t. We accommodate every client’s evolving needs with highly customized engagements, flexible project scopes and variable lengths of engagement. Avanza is an owner-operated firm unencumbered by the constraints of larger, bureaucratic companies. No matter the size of your project, Avanza’s owner and senior staff will be involved.

Where We Have Worked

Leading the Way to Better Healthcare Delivery

Avanza Healthcare Strategies was founded in 2007 as ASC Strategies, a strategic leader in the migration of surgery from hospitals to outpatient settings. Responding to a growing demand for consulting services beyond ambulatory surgery, we added Outpatient Strategies to our family of healthcare companies in 2011.

In 2013, under the leadership of president and CEO Joan Dentler, we brought both companies together under a single, unified brand—Avanza Healthcare Strategies—and added population health management as a second primary service line.

Over the years, our company has evolved to better meet the needs of hospitals, health systems and physicians, but amidst the changes, some things have and will remain constant:

  • Avanza continues to be a sought-after partner for migrating low-risk inpatient services to outpatient settings, with an ongoing focus on ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve been named an “ASC Development/Management Company to Watch” every year since 2008 by Becker’s ASC Review.
  • We help our clients, now in more than 40 states, capitalize on emerging opportunities to add or re-engineer service lines through productive collaborations.
  • We accommodate clients’ evolving needs with highly customized engagements, multi-disciplinary teams, flexible project scopes and variable lengths of engagement.

Perhaps most importantly, we do all of this with a broad understanding of stakeholder interests and our trademark blend of candor and diplomacy.

If you would like to find out more about Avanza or discuss how we can support your outpatient strategy, please contact us.

Our Team

What Our Clients Say

Avanza was most helpful in quickly assessing the situation and making knowledgeable, concise and precise recommendations to the board of the venture and then did an excellent job accomplishing the established work plan. They have been easy to work with and perform their work in a timely fashion. Excellent partners.

Avanza made our facility-licensing process go seamlessly, and they were a huge asset to the development and opening team. We look forward to working with them again on future projects.

We were very pleased with the assessment provided by Avanza. I really liked the way their staff handled our tough questions.

Every time we finish a call/meeting with Avanza staff, we remark on how well prepared they were and how productive the meeting was. Joan is so knowledgeable about the industry and is an excellent communicator Every team member we've met at Avanza has been very high caliber. We love the flexibility Avanza offers and the ability to get help with as much or little as we need.

I am grateful to Avanza for their dedication and hard work. Their personnel were excellent listeners and coordinators, and helped us to efficiently integrate our academic culture with that of private practice surgical care delivery.

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