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MedStar Health

Value Achieved

• $5 million healthcare partnership emergency preparedness grant from the Department of Health and Human Services

Campaign

Carmen Group helped organize a coalition of District hospitals under MedStar to win a national grant competition in which five best practices examples were chosen for the entire country. Close coordination with DC government was critical in building a winning case for a superior approach to surge capacity, emergency care capability and community preparedness for healthcare emergencies.

Major Medicaid Hospital Coalition

Value Achieved

• Over $65 million in DSH Disproportionate Share Hospitals funding per year from the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and other legislation, continuing as long as the program remains in effect.

Campaign

On behalf of the District of Columbia and its Medicaid serving hospitals, Carmen Group implemented a blended advocacy campaign addressing DC, Capitol Hill, the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Carmen Group was able to produce an outcome that others had not been able to achieve over the previous 10 years. District hospitals that benefitted included Children’s National Medical Center, United Medical Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Howard University Hospital, Capitol Hill Hospital, Hadley Hospital, Providence Hospital, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, Psychiatric Institute of Washington.

Washington Hospital Center (WHC)

Value Achieved

• Over $1 million in design and schematics funding to initiate the primary phase of construction of the nation's first all risks ready emergency room
• $10 million ot enhance critical surge capacity Emergency Department capabilities in DC

Campaign

• Carmen Group helped WHC respond to a congressionally mandated study examining the requirements for mass casualty or epidemic incidents with substantive strategic solution which was communicated and advocated throughout congress, the administration and relevant emergency healthcare constituencies.
• Carmen Group helped WHC create and execute a strategic grant submission in competition with hospitals across the city. The District had created the grant in response to important RAND research reporrts that identified critical at-risk populations that were most in need of care. WHC received the full $10 million available under the program.

Montefiore Medical Center

Value Achieved

• $4 million from US Army’s Material and Medical Command with unprecedented long-term funding opportunities defense wide

Campaign

After years of dwindling funding for healthcare IT advances at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Defense and Healthcare Practices found a strong partner in the Department of Defense. The Agency is leading the way in cutting edge technologies for its 9.3 million beneficiaries, which has far reaching implications for private healthcare as well. The client had created a proprietary data monitoring capability that is now receiving expanded functionality through a demonstration project with DOD that will lead to major long-term contracting opportunities both at home and in the global military theatre.

Montefiore's Medical Center project with the Department of Defense earns praise from Agency's senior leadership.

Biotechnology Company

Value Achieved

• Received multiple contract awards with multiple government agencies, resulting in increased market share and demonstrating the quality of the product to government decision makers.

Campaign

Through a blended advocacy campaign addressing Capitol Hill, the White House, the Veterans Administration, the Indian Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and members of the medical device industry, Carmen Group was able to produce an outcome that could not have been accomplished via a single-pronged approach.

Metropolitan Hospital

Value Achieved

• Played a critical role in stripping out a targeted appropriation in major legislation that would have undermined the hospital's regional interests.

Campaign

A targeted outreach effort to local council members was initiated and brought to a successful conclusion once Carmen Group, through careful research and aggressive positioning, successfully presented the hospital's substantive position regarding the relative merits of including the nefarious provision in the underlying bill.

Hospital Center

Value Achieved

• $1 million in uncompensated costs for providing emergency services after September 11.

Campaign

Carmen Group developed the case for prompt reimbursement of losses related to September 11. We worked with Congress and the Administration to successfully advance legislation.

Metropolitan Health Network

Value Achieved

• Achieved funding that allowed the expansion of a clinical information system to outpatient centers critical to providing necessary care to a medically under-served and indigent population.

Campaign

Carmen Group advocated to key Members of Congress as well as key staff, presenting the hospital's case before decision makers on Capitol Hill as well as in the Administration. The case presented focused on the President's priority for providing electronic health records to Americans in the next decade.