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1/02/02 – Fact Sheet On DeVaney Consulting Group

1/02/02 – Detailed Biography of Jack DeVaney

Fact Sheet On DeVaney Consulting Group

Media contact: Jack DeVaney, jack@devaneyconsulting.com,
(work) 800 261-1114 (after hours) 858-748-1052
Client focus: Hospitals that outsource clinical services
Services: Outsourcing project intervention, outsourcing contract negotiation and management training
Mission: To provide hospital executives with the expert knowledge and experience to reduce costs and resolve issues related to outsourcing clinical services.
Overview: DeVaney Consulting Group, Inc. specializes in assisting hospitals with clinical outsourcing strategy and management. Unlike other healthcare consulting firms, DeVaney Consulting Group offers an insider’s view of clinical outsourcing and is dedicated to helping hospitals eliminate unnecessary outsourcing costs.

Year founded: 2001
Principal: Jack DeVaney

Detailed Biography of Jack DeVaney
President, DeVaney Consulting Group

Over the course of his career, Jack DeVaney has negotiated more than 300 clinical outsourcing contracts with hospitals ranging in size from large teaching institutions to rural healthcare providers. He founded DeVaney Consulting Group in 2001 to help hospital executives reduce costs by identifying and resolving issues related to outsourcing clinical services to third party organizations.

From 1998 to 2001 he served as president of Edward Lifesciences Cardiovascular Resources, a subsidiary company of Edwards Lifesciences (EW-NYSE). Cardiovascular Resources was a clinical outsourcing company that contracted with more than 500 hospitals throughout the United States.

Prior to that DeVaney was with the publicly traded Horizon Health Corporation (HORC-NASDAQ) from 1985 to 1998. Horizon provides clinical management services to hospitals throughout the United States.

From 1997 to 1998 he was the president of Horizon’s Specialty Rehab Management, Inc., a national healthcare service company in Lewisville, Texas that contracted with hospitals to provide clinical and managerial services.

He was with Horizon Mental Health Management from 1988 to 1997, serving as the executive vice president of operations from 1996 to 1997. His career began as a hospital program director for Horizon in Michigan in 1985.

DeVaney is a frequent presenter at seminars on customer service and customer retention. He enjoys a national reputation as an authority on clinical outsourcing. He earned a master’s of public administration degree from Western Michigan University in 1984, a master’s of social work degree from Marywood University in Pennsylvania in 1980 and a bachelor of science from Bryant College in Rhode Island in 1974. He served honorably in the U.S. Army from 1975 to 1978.

DeVaney was born on May 24, 1952 in Ticonderoga, New York. He has been married since 1982 and lives with his wife, Brenda, and their two children in Poway, California, a suburb of San Diego.