Shane M. Cerone has significant experience helping businesses and organizations in the healthcare industry improve financial and operational performance.

Cerone’s healthcare consulting work is informed and enhanced by significant prior experience serving in C-suite level roles, including roles as president and CEO, of major hospitals.

Shane provides financial and operational support to a wide range of clients in the healthcare sector, including health systems, hospitals, independent physician practice associations (IPAs), and physician practice management companies (PPMs), among others.

The wide range of services that Shane provides to healthcare clients include:

• Turnaround consulting to improve financial and operational performance

• Advising employers in developing strategies to manage the cost of healthcare

• Leadership and management consulting services

• Developing solutions to improve care quality and efficiency

Previous Experience

Shane served in a number of leadership roles at hospitals across the country, including:

• Interim President—SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

• Interim President and CEO—Mercy Iowa City

• President—Beaumont Hospital

• Chief Operating Officer—Beaumont Hospital 

Publications, Presentations and Papers

Let’s Make Bold Decisions Now to Secure Affordable Health Care—Crain’s Detroit Business. December 11, 2016

Accountable Care: Outcomes and Updates on Payment Reform Impacting Pharmacy Practice—8th Annual American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Conference for Leaders in Health-System Pharmacy, October 21, 2013

(Presentation) Toyota Production System: A Single Approach to Improving Quality, Safety, Service, Employee Engagement, Efficiency and Cost—UHC Annual Meeting, September of 2011

Hospital profitability for a surgeon's common procedures predicts the surgeon's overall profitability for the hospital—Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 1998;10:457-463

Teaching Hospital Vitality in the 1990s - Does the Answer Lie in Corporate Management Principles?—COTH Report: Council of Teaching Hospitals; Ingrid Philibert, editor; Fall 1995;29:4