Current Affiliates include Health System Synergies and Kailo Alliance.  Learn more about these three here.  But remember that the capacities you can reach through Richard Bogue and Affiliates stretch out much further.

With Kailo Alliance, we help rural health providers examine their options for developing community health plans.  In the middle and late 1990s, some health provider organizations discovered the dangers of putting themselves at financial risk for covered lives.  In particular, many organizations had invested heavily in the acquisition of physician practices, expecting to be able to manage physician behavior through ownership.  As a result of notable failures, many health systems have retreated from their strategies for developing health plans.  Yet, hospitals and health systems continue to be unable to negotiate sustainable arrangements with commercial insurers, especially in rural areas.  The underlying reasons for health plan development remain.

Provider-sponsored community health plans make more sense than ever. Kailo Alliance believes that many providers jumped into health plan development too quickly and relied too heavily on the tactic of owning physician practices.  Kailo Alliance has a history of success in launching provider-sponsored health plans in rural areas, and can help you line up the means of accelerating care coordination and community health plan development in your area.  These means include overcoming capital reserve requirements, cost-effective third-party administration and, most importantly, adopting a well-tested process for developing a strong partnership between physicians and other health care providers before jumping into health plan development and ownership

With Health System Synergies, we conducted an evaluation of Missouri's widely acclaimed CHART project.  Since 1995, the Missouri Department of Health (DOH) and the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) have partnered to develop and optimize Community Health Assistance and Resource Teams. CHART has launched and offers financial and technical assistance to many local community health coalitions--86 local coalitions considered themselves part of CHART in 2000.  Richard Bogue, in affiliation with Health System Synergies, designed and conducted an evaluation that included a review of the project's documented history, surveys to groups throughout the state, and over 50 semi-structured telephone interviews.  Health System Synergies brings a high energy level when they assist health organizations to achieve community partnership-based synergies.

With dcaBoston, we developed a Signature Community Benefit Program service.  Hospitals and health systems typically have more community projects ongoing at any one time than they can track.  Scattered around the organization, and rarely reported regularly to the leadership, these projects usually are not well linked to overall strategies.  This diminishes the projects' impact and keeps the organization's strategies from better integrating a community health perspective.  The Signature Community Benefit Program service helps organizations identify and examine their many community projects, and revisit corporate goals in this light.  Then a systematic program can bind community projects into one strategic line of service--the Signature Community Benefit Program.  dcaBoston has many successes in its efforts to guide social, education and health causes to achievable results.