(Atlanta, GA – January 21, 2016) – Warbird Consulting Partners today announced the addition of experienced healthcare professional Bill Reveille. Reveille is joining as healthcare director, client relationship management/delivery management.
Reveille will serve as a client relationship manager for clients across the U.S. and will continue to increase business development with current clients as well as supporting Warbird’s financial services consulting solution.
“I am very excited to have Bill join the Warbird healthcare team,” said Doug Fenstermaker, managing partner and executive vice president, healthcare at Warbird Consulting Partners. “We strive to bring a unique approach in financial expertise for our clients. By blending CFO, investment banking experience and IT subject matter experts, we believe that we can really help our clients succeed financially as an integrated team of practitioner-consultants.”
Prior to joining Warbird, Reveille served as vice president, business development at GE Public Finance – Healthcare Finance where he originated, structured and oversaw the closing process for loan and bond transactions working directly with hospital CFOs, financial advisers and investment bankers. Also at GE Public Finance – Healthcare Finance, he previously served as a senior credit analyst. Previously, Reveille served as a credit manager at U.S. Capital Corporation and senior credit analyst at U.S. Concord Inc. and MetLife Capital Credit Corp.
Warbird’s healthcare practice utilizes a proven business model that is unmatched in the professional services industry by providing highly-skilled work teams to assist healthcare clients through its suite of services including the CFO Consulting Network, IT Services, Revenue Cycle Services, OnDemand Interim Talent and Accounting and Financial Services.
About Warbird Consulting Partners
Founded in 2012, Warbird Consulting Partners is a professional services firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in scalable, value-driven financial management solutions for businesses, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Warbird’s proven service delivery model and industry-leading expertise allow us to offer unparalleled value to organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
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University of Chicago Medicine is opening a new clinic in the bustling South Loop as the academic medical center looks to reach more patients beyond its Hyde Park campus.
Physicians specializing in primary care, cardiology and orthopedics, among other specialties, are expected to have up to 75,000 patient visits a year at the 18,000-square-foot clinic. It’s slated to open in October 2016 inside Southgate Market, a retail hub at Canal Street and Roosevelt Road that includes Whole Foods Market, DSW shoe store and Marshalls. Read the article in its entirety.
(Atlanta, GA – September 10, 2015) – Warbird Consulting Partners, a professional services firm specializing in accounting and financial consulting, today unveiled a new brand identity, symbolized by the introduction of a new logo that represents its growth and reputation built in just four years.
“There has never been a more exciting time than now to be part of Warbird, and this new brand and logo reflect our enthusiasm and focus on continuing to deliver impactful results for our clients,” said Mike Draa, CEO, Warbird Consulting Partners. “From the very beginning we’ve refused to be average. Everything from our financially focused business model to our people and our culture uniquely differentiates us in the marketplace. Our brand transformation better represents where Warbird is today and our vision of creating a company that fills a unique and lasting niche in the marketplace.”
The new logo, reminiscent of an eagle in flight, is a strong and vibrant addition to Warbird’s prior logo.
“Our new ‘eagle’ logo represents four different integrated segments at Warbird, our clients, service offerings, practices and our people,” said Samantha Tuttle, senior marketing coordinator, Warbird Consulting Partners. “From the bottom of the logo, it represents the foundation of how we deliver to our clients, first by listening to the client’s needs and meeting their needs with our niche capabilities. The middle piece of the logo represents the execution of the client’s project – always doing what’s right for our clients when executing a project. The top piece of the logo represents the results clients receive from our deliverables; making a positive impact on their business.”
Warbird Consulting Partners’ new tagline is, “Uniquely Qualified”. This tagline represents Warbird’s unique capabilities in the marketplace while also representing their business model and Warbird’s ability to customize their approach for each client.
The new logo was developed in collaboration with an Atlanta, GA firm, Creative Juice, LLC, a full service design agency specializing in branding, marketing, web design and UX/UI.
About Warbird Consulting Partners
Founded in 2012, Warbird Consulting Partners is a professional services firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in scalable, value-driven financial management solutions for businesses, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Warbird’s proven service delivery model and industry-leading expertise allow us to offer unparalleled value to organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
(Atlanta, GA – July 22, 2015) – Warbird Consulting Partners today announced the addition of experienced healthcare professionals Robert Wardwell, Jordan Melick and Tom Cole. Wardwell is joining as director and senior CFO consultant in Warbird’s CFO Consulting Network. Melick is joining as healthcare director, client relationship management/delivery management and Cole is joining as director of IT consulting.
Wardwell will be a member of Warbird’s elite CFO Consulting Network where his experience at regional, large hospitals and unique expertise in revenue cycle and clinical integration network formation will be utilized on an interim, advisory or project basis at clients that need his skill set.
Melick will serve as the client relationship manager for clients located in the western part of the U.S. and will continue to increase business development with current clients as well as supporting a new solution, Independent Consultant Services.
Cole will support Warbird Healthcare’s IT consulting solutions by expanding the IT business development program and assist in managing the deployment of IT resources to various clients.
“I am very excited to have Robert, Jordan and Tom join the Warbird healthcare team,” said Doug Fenstermaker, managing partner and executive vice president, healthcare at Warbird Consulting Partners. “We are striving to bring a unique approach in financial expertise for our clients. By blending CFO, investment banking experience and IT subject matter experts, we believe that we can really help our clients succeed financially as an integrated team of practitioner-consultants.”
Prior to joining Warbird‘s CFO Consulting Network, Wardwell served as Vice President of Finance, CFO for Dignity Health Southern California Service Area, Vice President of Finance, CFO for Tri-City Healthcare District and Senior Vice President, Finance for Schumpert Health System. He has significant experience in the areas of finance, operations and strategy within the healthcare industry.
Prior to joining Warbird, Melick served as managing director at Cain Brothers where he worked on a variety of healthcare investment banking projects, including bond issues, direct bank placement, mergers and acquisitions and asset management. Prior to Cain Brothers, he was a healthcare investment banker with Raymond James & Associates, Morgan Keegan & Co. and Piper Jaffray & Co.
Previously, Cole served as interim executive director – clinical ancillary systems at WellStar Health System through consulting firm ROI Healthcare Solutions where he built a team of analysts to support healthcare’ electronic transformation to Epic. He was also accountable for directing the IT products and services used for supporting clinical ancillary services. Prior to ROI, he worked for Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., Bridges Consulting Inc. and Baptist Healthcare System, Inc.
Warbird’s healthcare practice has been a leading source of growth since the company was founded in January 2012. Utilizing a proven business model that is unmatched in the professional services industry, Warbird provides highly-skilled work teams to assist healthcare clients through its suite of services including the CFO Consulting Network, OnDemand Interim Talent, Certified Project Management, IT Solutions, Revenue Cycle Solutions and Accounting and Financial Services.
About Warbird Consulting Partners
Founded in 2012, Warbird Consulting Partners is a professional services firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in scalable, value-driven financial management solutions for businesses, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Warbird’s proven service delivery model and industry-leading expertise allow us to offer unparalleled value to organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
Warbird Consulting Partners today announced that Keith Daniel has been appointed the company’s Chief Financial Officer effective immediately.
Mr. Daniel brings over 35 years of accounting and financial experience with nearly 20 years of financial executive experience to Warbird. Mr. Daniel has served as CFO at Computone Corporation, CFO at Space Master International and Director of Finance and Administration at Sivaco Wire Group.
For over a decade prior to joining Warbird, he was engaged in three different client projects at Warbird and has provided CFO and Controller services at the interim and project manager levels for numerous clients through consulting firms.
“I am very excited to have Keith join the Warbird team”, said Michael Draa, chief executive officer at Warbird Consulting Partners. “We have had the chance to see Keith in action at our clients and his broad-based experience and leadership attributes are a perfect fit for the needs of a growing business like Warbird. Keith’s management style will allow him to be the strategic and collaborative partner that Warbird and our clients need.”
Currently, Mr. Daniel is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a Past President of the Atlanta Chapter of Financial Executives International. He commented, “I am enthusiastic about working with the Warbird leadership team and contributing to the firm’s next phase of growth. Warbird has a talented finance team that is well positioned to continue the development of business operations that scale to support our growing client base.”
Mr. Daniel has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of North Texas. He is also an actively licensed Certified Public Accountant.
About Warbird Consulting Partners
Founded in 2012, Warbird Consulting Partners is a professional services firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in scalable, value-driven financial management solutions for businesses, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Warbird’s proven service delivery model and industry-leading expertise allow us to offer unparalleled value to organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
The Department of Health and Human Services threw down the gauntlet in late January when Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced its intention to increase value-based purchasing dramatically in the next few years.
HHS plans to move its payment system to 30 percent value-based in 2016 and 50 percent by 2018. It also plans to have 95 percent of fee-for-service plans include some sort of value and efficiency components by 2018. Read the article in its entirety.
University of Chicago Medicine has launched a study to see what it would take for the prominent South Side institution to open an adult trauma center of its own.
The study, launched in late January, also will identify other needs. They include addressing capacity issues at the three-hospital Hyde Park campus. U of C estimates it would need 35 beds for trauma patients, but few empty beds are available for the specialized care trauma patients would need. Read the article in its entirety.
In this Business Profile, Doug Fenstermaker, managing partner and executive vice president of health care, Warbird Consulting Partners, shares strategies to leverage outsourced CFO expertise to lead special projects or fill interim roles while recruiting is underway. Read the article in its entirety.
Who is going to break the news when an audit takes a bad turn or there is a breakdown in a negotiation with a payer? The CFO, of course. There is no way to make bad news sound good, but, according to CFOs who have been there, it is possible to soften the blow. Read the article in its entirety.