Blake has 10 years of experience in healthcare management consulting, specializing in compensation valuation and advisory work. Blake’s clients appreciate his ability to apply qualitative facts and circum-stances to quantitative data and analytics. He takes a personal approach to projects, establishing relationships with both junior staff members and senior-level leadership to ensure that he understands the people behind the process and that all work products can be defended on a stand-alone basis. Blake’s goal is to help organizations get the most out of their largest investment—their employees.
Prior to joining ECG, Blake was a senior consultant at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., where he managed consulting services related to valuation, compensation program design and administration, and physician-hospital alignment strategies. His client experience is diverse; Blake has consulted for 6 of the 40 largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the US, as reported by Becker’s Hospital Review, along with small, family-owned private practices. Examples of his work include being the preferred FMV and CR consulting partner for Providence (51 hospitals, 1,085 clinics, and 120,000+ caregivers across seven states); managing the compensation design process for employed faculty and physician leadership at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute (25+ locations); and facilitating several alignment negotiations (professional and management services arrangements) for Children’s Minnesota, one of the largest freestanding pediatric health systems in the US (2 hospitals, 12 primary care clinics, 6 rehabilitation centers, and 9 specialty care sites).
