Arden Clark

Enterprise healthcare consulting

Make your next big move happen.

Senior healthcare leaders work with your team. We make the plan, test the numbers, and help get the work done.

  • A plan your team shares
  • Senior help with the work
  • Clear owners drive each step
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45 minutes to work through your next move.

Your Strategic Roadmap.

01 / 03

Where do we start?

One priority.
One shared direction.

  • Operations
  • Finance
  • Clinical

Improve patient access across sites

A clear focus for your team.

$100M+
Built for healthcare system leaders
4–6 weeks
To a strategic roadmap and execution blueprint
Less risk
Variable, time-bound support.

Trusted by mission-driven healthcare leaders

Where we help

The opportunities that will define your future don't care about your org chart.

Choose an area to explore

Patient access & admissions

Make access work
across the system.

Connect referral pathways, admissions, and site operations so your teams can act on the same priorities.

Bring the right teams into the work

ReferralsAdmissionsOperations
Integrated access planShared ownership. Agreed measures.

Case studies

Selected client work.

Capital & funding

Submission value

$50M

Federal grant

Moffitt, Speros & regional partners

Our role

Drafted the submission. Helped partners agree on the plan and keep the work on time.

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Patient access

42%

over
15 months

Admissions growth

Mental Health Cooperative · Tennessee

Our role

Connected outreach, referrals, and intake. Gave the team shared reports and clear owners for the work.

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Care delivery

Client annual revenue

$200M

Model-of-care redesign

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Our role

Helped shape the Lifelong Recovery model. Mapped team handoffs, coordinated a research pilot, and set up routines to run the work.

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Estimated economic value

7× ROI

Median return on fees

New revenue plus cost savings, divided by our fees.

2024–2026

If we can’t see a clear path to at least a 3× return, we won’t recommend the work.

Financial results are not guaranteed.

Source
Calculation
(Estimated new revenue + estimated cost savings) ÷ Arden Clark fees.
Median
The middle result when the returns from each engagement are placed in order.
Sample & period
Arden Clark engagements, 2024–2026. The engagement count is not available.
Basis
Our own estimates of new revenue and cost savings. These figures do not show profit already earned.

Client perspective

“We were stuck, and then we weren’t. I think it’s that simple. Thanks for getting us moving.”

Executive SponsorNational Healthcare System

How our process works

Good plans need people who see them through.

Your starting point

Know exactly what to do next.

4–6 weeks

Agree on the goal and test the numbers. Map the work ahead.

See what’s included and what it costs

PHASE I: STRATEGIC ROADMAP

What to expect when you get started.

What you get

  1. Initiative brief

    The goal and what comes first. What’s in, and what’s out.

  2. Economic model

    What it could cost. What it could return. The numbers and assumptions behind both.

  3. Leadership package

    The case for the work. A clear deck and the facts leaders need to decide.

  4. Execution outline

    The main tasks, proposed owners, and key dates. Build adds the detail needed to put them into practice.

Who’s in your corner

Senior leaders.
Working with your team.

Troy Groenke, CEO of Arden Clark

A purposefully small team with senior reach.

Arden Clark embeds principals with deep experience, supported as needed by experts and specialists.

No big company overhead. No handoff to junior staff learning on your dime.

Just decades upon decades of experience growing and improving behavioral health and SUD treatment organizations.

Troy GroenkeCEO, Arden Clark

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A strong fit when…

  • You are a leader in a $100M+ healthcare system.Your work spans sites, departments, or P&Ls.
  • A senior leader is backing the work.And needs people across teams to move it forward.
  • Your team needs more help to get it done.Someone to help make the plan and lead the work.

Early-stage startups and single-site practices are generally not a good fit.

Work through the fit with us

Before we begin

That's a good question.

Something else on your mind?
Just ask

Do we need to commit to every phase?

No. Start with the Strategic Roadmap. We agree on the work and key dates for each phase. Then we review progress and decide what comes next. Financial results are not guaranteed.

How do you work with our internal teams?

We keep our team small and use your tools where we can. During Run, we help your team take over the work.

How will we measure progress?

We define a small set of access, throughput, and economic measures with your finance and operations teams, then review them as the work progresses.

What about confidentiality?

We work within your privacy, security, and compliance frameworks. Patient-identifiable data is only accessed when explicitly required and approved. Please keep patient information out of your initial inquiry.

Starting is easy

Talk it through.

Spend 45 minutes with a partner or principal. Bring the goal, the problem, or the part that’s stuck. We’ll work through the next step together.

Request a working session

No need to choose a fee level or commit to the work before we talk.

Meet the principals

  • Troy

    CEO and finance principal

    MBA

  • Scott

    Growth, access, and ops

    Master’s, Health Care Management

  • Kate

    Tech and AI

    MBA

  • Amy, FAHP, CFRE

    Major gift fundraising & capital campaigns

  • Monica

    People ops and org transformation

  • Dave

    Turnarounds and interim leadership (fractional CEO, COO)

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Case study · 1-page PDF · 111 KB

Capital & funding

Moffitt Cancer Center · Speros · Regional coalition

A $50M vision, ready for submission.

Five technical projects. Ten coalition members. One integrated federal grant proposal.

5
connected projects
10
coalition members
30+
letters of support

The opportunity

The Florida Oncology and Radiopharmaceutical Growth Engine (FORGE) proposal brought together radiopharmaceutical capabilities, facility construction, workforce development, and incubator operations. The coalition needed a cohesive application for the Economic Development Administration’s Industry Transformation Path program on a compressed timeline.

What we did

  • Connected technical, clinical, and operational details to a shared economic narrative.
  • Coordinated budgets, specifications, and documents across the five projects in a shared workspace.
  • Framed clear decisions to streamline executive approvals and keep the submission moving.

What changed

The coalition delivered a comprehensive, on-time EDA ED-900 submission backed by more than 30 letters of support. The work gave partners a unified plan for advancing precision oncology and economic development in Tampa Bay.

The documented outcome is a completed grant submission; the case study does not report a funding award.

The team

Monica Silva Gutierrez · Alexis Lehmann · Matt McCabe · Nora Bergman · Claire Duvallet · Veronica Descotte

Work through a similar priority

Case study · 1-page PDF · 178 KB

Patient access

Mental Health Cooperative · Tennessee

42% admissions growth in 15 months.

A disciplined system connecting outreach, referrals, and intake conversion.

42%
admissions growth
30%
lower acquisition cost
39%
more qualified demand

The opportunity

Mental Health Cooperative, a $120M nonprofit behavioral health system serving communities across Tennessee, faced persistently low admissions despite clear demand for its services. Leadership needed to understand where demand was being lost and build a reliable path from first contact to enrollment.

What we did

  • Defined priority audiences, mapped consumer and referral journeys, and identified intake as the primary conversion constraint.
  • Connected market strategy, outreach, referral development, and intake conversion in one operating model.
  • Introduced pipeline protocols, dashboards, and executive oversight to make performance and ownership visible.

What changed

Annualized admissions rose from 20,604 to 29,148 over 15 months. Call-to-enrollment time fell below 40 minutes. These results were achieved without acquisitions or added headcount.

The team

Scott Palmer · Troy Groenke

Work through a similar priority

Case study · 1-page PDF · 193 KB

Care delivery

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

A connected model for lifelong recovery.

Helping teams turn a care vision into shared workflows, decisions, and daily practice.

Care
enterprise model
Teams
shared workflows
Pilot
research coordination

The opportunity

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Lifelong Recovery initiative sought to connect individual treatment episodes into a guided recovery journey for patients, families, and alumni. The work reached across clinical services, alumni relations, family programming, research, technology, philanthropy, finance, and operations.

What we did

  • Framed the model across first outreach, treatment, discharge planning, recovery coaching, alumni engagement, and long-term support.
  • Co-designed workflows and warm handoffs with frontline teams and organized a research pilot.
  • Established project plans, integrated budgets, decision logs, and management routines to keep the work coordinated.

What changed

The work created a structured model leaders could manage and teams could execute, with clearer departmental alignment and stronger integration across the treatment continuum. The research pilot was designed to measure recovery capital, quality of life, and engagement to inform future decisions about scale, payer value, and policy.

The team

Nora Bergman · Trevyr Meade · Troy Groenke

Work through a similar priority