Charles Preus

Background

About Charles Preus

Mr. Preus has over thirty years of unique experience in various segments of the healthcare industry. He started his professional career as a healthcare consultant focused on operational and financial systems in hospitals. During his fifteen years with proprietary healthcare provider systems, he developed his management and communication skills. Experiences with large multi-state, multi-facility corporations gave him an appreciation for the organizational structure, managerial metrics and communications required to manage the delivery of quality services in the rapidly changing healthcare field. In the 1990s, Mr. Preus joined Abt Associates, Inc. as Director of Operations for the Business Research and Consulting practice, coordinating the project management and staff resource allocation of the seventy-member consulting group. There he assisted clients in evaluating the effects of managed care on business operations and identifying new strategic opportunities created by changing market dynamics. He was actively involved with the development of outcomes measurement approaches that employers and health plans used to evaluate and improve performance. Prior to Abt, he was the Manager of the Boston healthcare consulting practice of a national accounting firm, managing operational and feasibility study projects. Today, Mr. Preus continues to consult to, and share his project management, communications, marketing, and operational expertise with a wide range of clients in the ever-changing healthcare industry. Through his Strategic Communications Group and its affiliates, he is applying his extensive experience and knowledge to assist clients to understand their changing markets and how to respond in challenging times.