89: A Conversation with Jonathan Sprague

Bill Auxier, Ph.DPodcast1 Comment

This week we’re having a conversation with Jonathan Sprague, the President of Rocky Coast Consulting (RCC), located in Bangor, Maine.  Jonathan has over forty years of health care related management consulting experience focused on strategy and business development, organizational leadership, and hospital-physician relationships.  He has extensive experience providing consulting to rural hospitals, physicians, FQHCs, and other health care organizations across the country.

“Rural people are at risk. Rural communities are at risk. And I think in many cases,
profound risk, more risk than they realize.” 

Jonathan has provided planning support to fourteen State Offices of Rural Health; chaired the National Rural Health Association’s Issue Groups on Rural Medicaid Policy and General Surgery; and facilitated the development of statewide, rural health plans in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maine.

Jonathan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College; received a Master’s Degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health; and completed an Advanced Fellowship in Health Administration in the Presidents’ Offices of the American Hospital Association and Blue Cross Association.

One Comment on “89: A Conversation with Jonathan Sprague”

  1. Many good points especially about Medicaid funding impact and the economics of general surgery in rural hospitals.

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