Catherine Carow is president of Carow Consulting. She has over 20 years of experience in strategic and physician resource planning, mergers and acquisitions, business development, marketing and operations. She specializes in developing business strategies based on data-driven evidence. She initiated and led clinical and senior leadership teams to identify growth opportunities based on financial performance and market advantages. Ms. Carow has managed three to five-year planning processes, as well as annual tactical plans, and developed aligned physician growth strategies. She identified physician specialty and group targets for recruitment, succession planning and retention.

Ms. Carow has provided planning, analytical and marketing direction for academic, community, and pediatric hospitals and systems, and nonprofit and government organizations. She developed business plans, analyzed major markets, facilitated retreats, and outlined and evaluated potential partners along the care continuum. In prior positions, Ms. Carow oversaw the planning department, PHO marketing, physician referral call functions and integrated operations of a $20M PHO with a 500-member multispecialty group. She is also experienced with CON regulations and the filing process, having worked with a team to obtain approval for a $280 million inpatient tower.

Ms. Carow is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois in the master of health administration program. She earned her master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in international business from Clemson University and studied in Italy. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development. She was chair of the Education and Networking Committee and a former board member of the Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum.

Ms. Carow serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:

• Service Line Planning: Developing a Consumer-Based Approach to Providing Quality Care