Vicki Lucas, LLC is the premier expert for business development, strategy, operations and facility design consulting services to hospitals and health systems focusing on women’s and children’s health services, including:

Strategic planning for women’s and children’s services

Free-standing women’s and children’s facilities planning, including Pediatric EDs

Provider development, practice management and productivity

Quality assurance, regulatory compliance and risk reduction

Operations improvement, patient flow design and staffing efficiency

Financial analysis, cost reduction and revenue enhancement

Facilities design, space planning and building project management

Business development, product improvement and market expansion

Leadership and service line development, organization structure analysis

Technology assessment and electronic medical records implementation

Women’s hospital, Women’s Center and Perinatal Center strategic planning

What is Vicki Lucas, LLC?

With over 25 years of executive experience in women’s and children’s health, a PhD in healthcare administration and finance and certified as a women’s health nurse practitioner, Dr. Lucas embodies the unique combination of expert business, financial and clinical knowledge. Her vast network has allowed her to develop an extensive data base of national and regional benchmarks in the business of women’s and children’s health. She has been described by her clients as a superb statesman, educational speaker, brilliant strategist, successful business woman and expert clinician who works effectively at all levels of any organization to gain consensus, buy-in, and approval.

Why Vicki Lucas, LLC?

  • Proven track record of 25 years of success in Women’s and Children’s Services

  • The most experienced firm in the U.S. in Women Service Line business development

  • Specialized credentials brings credibility – PhD in Health Care Administration and Finance and nationally certified as a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner

  • Recent executive experience in 2.5 billion annual revenue health system

  • Success in senior executive positions in Women’s and Children’s Health in academia and administration over the past 25 years

  • The best communicators, facilitators and translators of critical information because of our solid interdisciplinary foundation

  • We know how women think and what they want through our extensive market research and clinical experience

  • Access to the most comprehensive professional network in the U.S.

Select clients and client related projects include:

Johns Hopkins Hospital System, Baltimore, MD  –  System wide Women’s Health strategic plan

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA – System wide Women’s Health strategic plan

Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI  –   Strategic plan, Perinatal Center strategy

Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX  –  Women’s Hospital and physician development strategy

Adventist Medical Center, Portland, OR  –  Strategic plan, Perinatal Center business development

Deaconess Women’s Hospital, Evansville, IN  –  Perinatal Center, Women’s Hospital Strategic plan

St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis, MO  –  Women’s Health, Perinatal Center plan

John Muir Women’s Center, Walnut Creek, CA – Women’s Health business development

Bon Secours Health System, Richmond, VA  – MCH and Perinatal Center operations improvement

Lancaster General Women’s and Babies Hospital, Lancaster, PA  –  Children’s Hospital strategy, facility design and operations improvement

E & C Medical Intelligence announces that Dr. Lucas will be a Senior Advisor on strategic business development for their Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics. Read more here.