Experienced Healthcare Management
Serving the Healthcare Industry for over 50 years
Proficient in
healthcare administration
WLN & Associates offers more than forty years of healthcare management experience and twenty years of experience in community and major university medical consulting. Expertise in health care administration, clinical staff management, physician credentialing, medical residency programs, and third-party payer/managed care relationships.
We provide expert testimony in matters relating to hospital administration and can provide other research, including, analysis of fiduciary plans of healthcare providers, and research into standards of care by discipline.
MEET MANAGING PARTNER
William L. Nellis, LFACHE
William (AKA Bill) L. Nellis's career in hospitals began in Boston at Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, where he was assigned the responsibility to establish and operate a management system that encompassed all areas of the hospital that provided patient care services.
Bill is the managing partner at WLN & Associates. The firm is based in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and its main focus is on hospital/healthcare provider operational issues involving patient care, quality, and safety, along with managing hospital risk exposure.
IDENTIFYING problems & creating solutions
"Home of THE FIT SYSTEM"
In a TEDx Maastricht presentation, Paul Rulkens stated that 97% of an organization’s staff fail to identify unique opportunities within the box they work in. He defined the box as an “industry standard.”
In our industry, the single most prevalent standard-setting organization is The Joint Commission plus a plethora of other organizations that have their own “standards” often not defining them as such. Further, they often lack the specificity to identify actual operational problems – let alone their solutions.
Several examples of organizations that do-in-fact “break the industry standard” include:
- Ikea
- Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- Dell
- Tesla
- W. L. Gore
- Wegmans
- The Mayo Clinic
- Morristown Medical Center
- Atlantic Health System
- Chobani
As illustrated in the downloadable PDF below, our Fit System assembles the specifics of providing health care into a distinctive format with multiple ways to identify problems and create solutions. We now define our firm as the “Home of The Fit System.”
Providing solutions for hospitals:
MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONAL ISSUES
Before establishing WLN & Associates, the firm’s senior consultant spent 25 years in hospitals, including a senior management position in one of the major Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, 14 years as the president of a large suburban hospital, and 4 years as the CEO of a major university-owned teaching hospital.
At WLN & Associates, we offer over 50 years of combined experience in the direct management and operation of hospitals and in providing focused research and investigation into specific hospital management and operational issues. Our main focus at WLN & Associates is on hospital/healthcare provider operational issues involving patient care, quality, and safety, along with managing hospital risk exposure.
WLN & Associates provides
consulting services
“Compliance requirements”©
- By various external accrediting organizations, professional societies, licensing authorities, governmental agencies, the courts, etc.
- Through contractual agreements entered into by two or more organizations
- By the health care provider organization itself
Sentinel Events/Risk Management
- Identification
- Investigation
- Containment
- Prevention
- Education
- Training
- Seminars
- Consulting
- Root cause analysis (RCA)
Our Other consulting services
- Evolving technologies & practices
- Selection & management of operational staff
- Systemic operational issues & change
- Workflow improvement
- Functional realignment
- Networking & affiliations
- Resource reallocation
- Concepts/trends
- Creative innovation
- Issues requiring customized assistance
- Hospital operating standards & standardization
WE HAVE THE LARGEST
standards library
in the whole Country
With the largest single library of hospital standards, WLN & Associates can provide sufficient resources for standards research, as well as assist in helping to identify problems and creating solutions.
If you would like to receive consulting services for a potential case, please reach out to us. Let us put our experience and expertise to work for you. Give us a call today.
Highly Experienced provider of Healthcare management consulting
After 25 years of combined experience in hospital management positions, WLN & Associates continues to provide consulting services to hospitals, as well as for medical products and medical equipment manufacturers.
With regards to the legal community, specifically in areas involving disputes related to hospital corporate liability. To learn more about our consulting services or if you are ready to talk to a member of our team today, simply give us a call or contact us by using one of the easy forms found on this site.
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Office Address:
1097 Hollywell Ave Number 102
Chambersburg, PA 17201