Helping health systems achieve the quadruple aim
through strategic innovation and process optimization.
About Cura
Cura Health System Innovation Advisory helps hospitals, clinics, and other health care delivery systems succeed in a rapidly changing market.
With a unique combination of strategic expertise, operational skill, and change management expertise, we can help you achieve your quadruple aim: improving the health of the population, enhancing the patient experience, reducing costs, and improving care team well-being.
Our organization's approach to innovation is reactive, addressing problems like whack-a-mole. We don't have a cohesive and strategic approach to innovation.
Our processes are fraught with waste and inefficiencies, which lead to staff burnout, high costs, poor quality, and disappointing patient experiences.
It is incredibly complex for our organization to make decisions on which innovations and which projects to resource. By the time we make a decision, the innovation is already out-dated.
Our teams spend most of their time fire-fighting without time to focus. At the end of the year we often realize that we didn't meaningfully move the needle on our strategic priorities.
Most innovations or technologies that we try to implement do not end up achieving the touted outcomes.
Sound Familiar?
Most health system executives experience these or similar pain points.
Cura Advisory is here to help.
Solutions
Innovation Strategy Development
Cura partners with you to develop an innovation strategy that aligns with and advances your organizational priorities. This can range from an annual innovation strategy to development of a full Innovation Center.
Innovation Implementation
Many teams don’t have the time or specific expertise it takes to implement innovation in a way that gets the optimal results. Cura partners with you to understand exactly how your teams & processes need to evolve in order to realize the full potential.
Process Improvement
Cura works with your team to understand current workflows then uses our expertise in process engineering and change management to together design more efficient, patient-centric, and cost-efficient processes.
Innovation Pipeline
Cura helps you define a decision making process for evaluation of innovations that support your strategy. Streamlined decision making avoids wasted resources, implementation timelines that are too long, and technologies that are potentially outdated by the time they are implemented.
Strategy Deployment
Cura partners with your organization to understand how each role plays a part in implementing the overall strategy. This results in an army of individuals all playing their specific part to achieve the strategic priority with clarity and empowerment, providing a much higher likelihood of success.
About the founder
Jenine Alves brings more than 15 years of experience directing strategy and operations in various leadership roles within healthcare businesses. Her unique combination of strategic acumen and deep, hands-on operational experience make her a key advisor for healthcare systems looking to enable innovation. Prior to founding Cura, Jenine was the strategy and operations portfolio leader for one of the flagship hospitals for Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the US with more than 12 million members. Jenine was also a regional director at Crossover Health, an innovative healthcare provider delivering a new model of primary care, and a leader of performance excellence at Stanford Health Care, consistently ranked one of the best academic hospitals in the US. Jenine holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Testimonials
I have found Jenine to be extraordinarily gifted in being able to blend intellectual acumen with interpersonal skills. She connects with people at all levels of the organization and is very tactful and effective giving the appropriate guidance and structure to advance very complicated projects.
It is not very frequent in a career that you get the opportunity to work with someone like Jenine. I have been impressed with Jenine’s intellectual capacity, her expertise in operational process efficiency, and her ability to build strong relationships of mutual trust and respect not only with senior leadership and physician leaders, but also those on her team. Jenine has a passion and energy for transforming the way we deliver healthcare that is contagious and inspiring for others.
Jenine's wealth of knowledge, insights, and experience has been invaluable to our team. Beyond excelling in developing our people, she plays a pivotal role in shaping and structuring our work to drive impactful results. Her knack for swiftly establishing trusting relationships with both leaders and team members facilitates rapid alignment and seamless collaboration. We deeply value and appreciate the significant contributions she has made to our success.
You can not drive meaningful change in a health system without a near anthropological understanding of the operations born out of experience. But you also have to have a full strategic and innovative tool set. Jenine brains all of this.
Eric Williams
VP, Organ Transplant Service Line (former)
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Marlena Kane
Healthcare Operations & Strategy Executive
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Sujata Easton
Managing Director, Regional Portfolio Management
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Scott Barclay
Managing Director, Healthcare
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Insights
"Health system executives struggle with reconciling innovation with the downsides of disrupting long-standing culture and workflows”
Jaan Sidorov, former CEO of the PA Clinical Network.
