Strategy that helps health centers grow, fund, and deliver.
Streamline Consulting Inc. advises community health centers, public hospitals, and nonprofit health systems on strategic planning, funding, value-based care, and technology adoption. You work directly with the Principal, Rajat Simhan.
How I help
Engagements are led by one senior executive from first conversation to final deliverable, with no hand-offs to junior staff.
- Strategic planning
- Multi-year business plans with clear priorities, budgets, and accountability, built for CEOs and boards and carried through execution.
- Revenue and funding
- New service lines, grant applications, public and private partnerships, and payer negotiations that bring in funding and improve reimbursement.
- Value-based care and population health
- Care delivery redesign, data governance, and predictive analytics that help clinicians manage chronically ill patients and reduce avoidable admissions.
- Clinic operations and patient access
- Scheduling, throughput, and patient experience improvements, including fewer no-shows and same-day access.
- Health technology and AI adoption
- Electronic health record optimization, charge capture, and selecting and onboarding technology partners that reduce clinician burden.
- Board and governance advisory
- Guidance on strategic direction, governance structure, and performance oversight for boards of healthcare organizations.
Results from previous roles
Outcomes delivered as an executive and consultant at health centers, a public teaching hospital, and a health technology company.
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$200M
Supplemental revenue delivered for capital investment, IT infrastructure, and hiring by redesigning care delivery across a public health system.San Joaquin General Hospital
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20%
Revenue growth, with a 40% improvement in clinical quality scores, from a three-year strategic plan.San Joaquin Health Centers
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$6M
Raised through public and private partnerships and grants to build a fully staffed social work department.San Joaquin Health Centers
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$5M
Federal HRSA grant that funded a mobile health van for COVID testing and vaccination in underserved communities.San Joaquin Health Centers
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25%
Fewer unnecessary inpatient and emergency department admissions after launching a population health platform.San Joaquin Health Centers
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40%
Fewer missed appointments after introducing text-message scheduling and AI-assisted charting.San Joaquin Health Centers
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30%
Higher reimbursement rates negotiated with health insurers, and Patient Centered Medical Home recognition through NCQA.San Joaquin General Hospital
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$20M
Additional revenue from long-term contracts with El Camino Hospital and Banner Health.eClinicalWorks
About the Principal
Rajat Simhan brings over 15 years of experience across government, private, and nonprofit organizations. He has led teams of more than 300 full-time equivalents and managed portfolios and revenue streams exceeding $200 million. As an executive and change agent, he has driven innovation and strategic oversight that improve quality of care, reduce costs, and improve the patient experience.
His work spans complex projects, integrating business functions to improve population health outcomes, adopting artificial intelligence to solve workflow and operational problems, growing market share and revenue, and raising capital. He has served, through Streamline, as Chief Strategy Officer of a community health center network serving more than 45,000 patients and as a principal consultant on care delivery reform at a 196-bed public teaching hospital. Earlier, he was a business development director at a leading electronic health record company.
He presents to executives with clarity, advances shared goals across the public and private sectors, and has contributed to boards for over five years, guiding their strategic direction.
Streamline Consulting Inc. has been a one-person firm since 2017, by design. Every engagement gets senior attention, a plain-language plan, and a focus on results you can measure.
Experience
- Founder and PrincipalStreamline Consulting Inc., March 2017 to present
- Chief Strategy OfficerSan Joaquin Health Centers, 2021 to 2026, through Streamline
- Consultant, Program ManagerSan Joaquin County, 2020 to 2021, through Streamline
- Principal ConsultantSan Joaquin General Hospital, 2017 to 2020, through Streamline
- Director of Business Development, WesteClinicalWorks, 2013 to 2017
- Project DirectoreClinicalWorks, 2007 to 2013
Education and credentials
- MBA, FinanceUCLA Anderson School of Management
- MSc, Information ManagementSyracuse University
- Project Management Professional (PMP)Project Management Institute
- Certified Healthcare Finance Professional (CHFP)Healthcare Financial Management Association
Start a conversation
Tell me about your organization and what you are trying to achieve. I will reply personally to discuss whether and how I can help.