Episode
When Mission Meets Margin: Rethinking Healthcare Strategy
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- The Architecture of Healing
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- Nov 17, 2025
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- 2611
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Show Notes – Michelle Mader In this episode of The Architecture of Healing , host Chase Miller sits down with Michelle Mader Managing Director of Healthcare Strategic Advisory Services at Ankura, to explore the complexities of healthcare strategy, capital deployment, and the balance between mission and margin in today's healthcare landscape. Michelle brings deep expertise in helping large health systems prioritize capital deployment—essentially deciding where, when, and how to invest limited resources . From mission-driven nonprofits to shareholder-focused for-profits, she explains how healthcare organizations are navigating unprecedented challenges, including tightening budgets, aging populations, and shifting state and federal regulations. Michelle leaves us with a big idea: true transformation requires aligning financial incentives with patient access and outcomes —a shift every U.S. administration has wrestled with for decades. She provides a fascinating historical lens , tracing healthcare's evolution from employer-sponsored benefits in the 1940s through Medicare/Medicaid in the 1960s, the access-focused era of the 70s–90s, and today's cost-control environment. Whether you're a healthcare leader, strategist, designer, or simply curious about the forces shaping our healthcare system, this episode offers practical insights and big-picture perspective on how organizations can adapt, prioritize, and innovate in the face of rapid change. What You'll Learn in This Episode Capital Strategy & Prioritization – how healthcare systems balance limited resources with seemingly unlimited demands. The balancing act of healthcare as both business and humanity — why financial viability is essential for mission-driven care. Legislation and state-level impacts — how policies in Indi…