Via Healthcare Consulting

I engaged Via Healthcare Consulting to help discover successes and opportunities within our imaging joint venture boards. They created a survey that allowed us to poll the board of directors members, so we had more understanding of functionality. The Via team is fantastic to work with, they are reliable, knowledgeable, professional, and instill confidence throughout the process. I hope to continue to work with them in the future to help empower our governance.

I was searching for a consultant with expertise in academic medical centers and came upon Via through a series of recommendations. From the onset of early conversations with the principal consultant, I knew Via would be the consulting firm who could facilitate my vice chair retreat to help us develop a transformative five-year strategic plan for my department. The time with Via was invaluable in developing a mission statement, vision, and objectives. The Via team we worked with was personable, energetic, knowledgeable, engaging and are clearly experts in developing strategic plans. We are continuing to seek their guidance to move our plan forward. The experience has exceeded my expectations.

Health care is a dynamic, evolving industry. Having the expert guidance of Via Healthcare managing our governing board is invaluable. We know our board is getting the information they need, when they need it. The agendas are streamlined so our trustees spend more time discussing, not reading. This service has greatly enhanced our board’s productivity and effectiveness.

For five years, Kara Witalis and the Via team have been valuable advisors to the PacMed leadership team – the board and management together. Via brings so much healthcare governance insider-baseball knowledge, advice, and guidance – which really helps to bring up the effectiveness of the board and leadership. Helps us lead the organization better. Kara and Via are also excellent facilitators -- of meetings and retreats, of the discussions and direction, of the process and managing change. At PacMed, they helped our board with board self-reflection and effectiveness, committee redesign, board culture, leadership transitions, affiliation. Via’s style is to get the right people in the room, get the right level of conversations and discussions going. It’s enabled our board to be more knowledgeable, more engaged, bolder, and more strategic.