Health System Leaders Need to Proactively Strategize for Growth During COVID-19: McKinsey Report

A recently published report by analysts at McKinsey proposes that health system leaders proactively engage in strategies to effectively build their operations out of the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

As a result, they write, “For health systems, current financial challenges are likely to persist into the next normal. As many providers are seeing a recent upsurge in volume due to pent-up demand, the long-term financial outlook is less certain, as more than 20 percent of respondent patients in a recent McKinsey Consumer Healthcare Insights survey and reported they either do not know when they will plan future care or will delay care until fall 2020 or later.” The authors recommend that patient care organization leaders take the following key steps.