Designing how change happens in healthcare

We work across the care continuum to help leaders align strategy with how care is actually delivered. By connecting insight to action, we support organizations in improving outcomes, strengthening performance, and building the capability to sustain change over time.

Healthcare Is changing

The conditions that shaped modern healthcare are shifting faster than most organizations can adapt. Scientific advances, digital capabilities, workforce shortages, financial pressure, and rising expectations from patients and communities are redefining how care must be designed, delivered, and coordinated. Leaders are being asked to transform operating models while continuing to provide safe, reliable care every day — often across increasingly complex networks of partners, sites, and stakeholders.

With change comes increased risk

The greatest risk is not a lack of ideas, technology, or strategic ambition. It is the widening gap between intent and execution. In many organizations, strategic priorities stall as they encounter fragmented workflows, misaligned incentives, capacity constraints, and governance structures not built for sustained transformation. Initiatives lose alignment, momentum slows, and promising innovations struggle to scale into consistent practice.

Healthcare organizations do not simply need better plans. They need clearer choices, stronger alignment, and the operating conditions required to deliver change in real-world environments.

We can help

We partner with health systems, associations, public agencies, and mission-driven networks to redesign systems of care, build shared leadership capability, and create the infrastructure needed to move from insight to coordinated action. Our work connects human-centered discovery with disciplined strategy and practical implementation tools, enabling organizations to strengthen performance, accelerate innovation, and sustain measurable improvement over time.

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What we do

Do Tank helps organizations translate insight into execution and ambition into sustained results. We integrate four interconnected capabilities that enable leaders to redesign systems, align stakeholders, and build momentum for change.

Strategy and Transformation

We help leadership teams clarify strategic direction and make confident trade-offs in uncertain environments. Our work focuses on designing strategies that reflect operational realities, strengthen governance, and guide coordinated investment and capability development.

Human-Centered Leadership and Innovation

We apply practical design methods that bring frontline perspectives into strategic decision-making. By engaging patients, staff, and community partners, we help leaders understand how systems actually function — and design solutions that can be adopted and sustained.

Collaborative Ecosystem Design

We design and facilitate collaboratives, innovation programs, and large-scale working environments that align diverse stakeholders around shared goals. These structures help organizations move beyond isolated initiatives toward coordinated system-level progress.

Digital Knowledge and Engagement Platforms

We build modern digital ecosystems — including strategy hubs, learning networks, and resource platforms — that organize knowledge, support real-time collaboration, and enable organizations to scale what works across regions and systems of care.

Who we
work with

We work with healthcare system, agencies and organizations across the US and beyond. We pride ourselves in collaborating with organizations of any size, from small rural health systems to nationwide collaboratives.

National Healthcare Associations

Do Tank works with national associations to design large-scale innovation initiatives, deliver leadership development programs, and lead cross-sector collaboratives that help members navigate industry change.

State Healthcare Associations (SHA)

Do Tank works with SHAs to develop strategy and align stakeholders around strategic priorities, strengthen statewide improvement efforts and support the implementation of programs that improve care delivery and outcomes.

Hospitals and Healthcare Systems

Do Tank works with providers across the care continuum with clients that include academic medical centers, large multistate care providers, midsize organizations, children’s hospitals, critical access hospitals and rural health providers.

Quality Improvement Collaboratives

Do Tank works with Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and regional collaboratives including perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) to accelerate improvements in care quality through data-driven insights, collaborative learning, and programmatic support.

Governmental Agencies

Do Tank works with local, state and Federal public health agencies who are actively working to improve the overall health of their communities.

Philanthropic Organizations

Do Tank works with community-based organizations, funding organizations and other non-profit organizations whose mission is focused on improving provision of care.

Biomedical Industry

Do Tank works with pharmaceutical organizations to ensure products and strategies align with how care is actually delivered. This includes patient-centered program design, stakeholder engagement, and change efforts that support adoption and real-world impact.

Our offers

Do Tank helps organizations translate insight into execution and ambition into sustained results. We integrate four interconnected capabilities that enable leaders to redesign systems, align stakeholders, and build momentum for change.

Redesigning how maternal care is delivered. Do Tank brings a systems-design lens to maternal health improvement. Rather than focusing only on clinical protocols or individual programs, we help organizations redesign how care is coordinated across hospitals, community partners, and support services. Our work combines deep community engagement with structured implementation planning, ensuring solutions reflect lived experience while remaining operationally viable. The result is maternal health strategies that move beyond pilots — building models that can scale across regions and sustain workforce participation.
Redesigning clinical systems to turn high-level protocols into coordinated daily action. Do Tank helps organizations close the gap between quality goals and day-to-day execution. Rather than acting as a clinical vendor, we focus on how teams, workflows, and operating conditions must align for improvement to take hold across sites and over time. We leave behind the execution capability and practical playbooks teams need to embed improvement into how care is consistently delivered.
Securing the future of rural care through resilient system design and community-backed strategy. Do Tank helps rural healthcare leaders navigate complex, high-stakes transformation with greater clarity and discipline. Our work focuses on redesigning care models, partnerships, and strategic priorities in ways that reflect the realities of rural access, workforce pressure, and financial constraint. We ensure solutions are viable in practice — not just in concept — and leave behind the capability and tools needed to manage uncertainty and sustain progress.
Moving from strategic intent to coordinated system action. Do Tank is a system transformation partner focused on the intersection of purpose and performance. We help organizations move health equity from commitment to coordinated action by designing the structures, alignment, and accountability needed to manage complex change across systems of care. Our work connects community insight with enterprise decision-making, leaving behind the organizational capability required to sustain progress over time.
Designing new paths to value when legacy models no longer work. Unlike many boutique firms that focus primarily on market analysis or concept development, Do Tank helps leaders understand the deeper structural and cultural forces shaping how value is created. We combine economic rigor with human-centered system insight and readiness discipline to ensure new business models are not only strategically sound, but executable across real operating environments. This approach enables executive teams to make confident structural choices while strengthening the organization’s ability to sustain change and capture long-term value.
Aligning leaders. Delivering outcomes. Do Tank treats strategy as a capability to be built, not a document to be delivered. We help leadership teams strengthen how they make decisions, align stakeholders, and sequence change — ensuring strategic priorities remain actionable as conditions evolve. Organizations choose Do Tank when they need more than analysis: they need a planning process that increases organizational focus, strengthens accountability, and produces strategies leaders can actually use.
Designing care models that compete and perform. Do Tank helps healthcare leaders redesign service lines as intentional growth platforms rather than incremental program improvements. We work at the intersection of clinical strategy, market positioning, and operational capability — helping organizations determine where to invest, how to organize care across sites, and how to align physicians around a shared direction. Our approach ensures service models are feasible given workforce capacity and operational realities, enabling leaders to strengthen performance while positioning the organization for long-term relevance.
Turning evaluation into a tool for action. Do Tank goes beyond traditional evaluation by helping leaders understand how culture, workforce dynamics, and system design influence program performance. We combine rigorous analytics with human-centered discovery and readiness discipline so evaluation findings translate into actionable change and inform real-time decisions. The result is stronger accountability, clearer investment decisions, and greater confidence in how programs evolve, scale, and deliver sustained impact.

Stories from the field

Do Tank helps organizations translate insight into execution and ambition into sustained results. We integrate four interconnected capabilities that enable leaders to redesign systems, align stakeholders, and build momentum for change.

Aligning Executive Leadership to Redesign Healthcare

Bringing executive teams into alignment to co-create a clear, unified vision and drive meaningful transformation across complex healthcare systems.

You Can’t Optimize What You Don’t Understand

Uncovering hidden system dynamics to enable smarter, evidence-based decisions and unlock meaningful performance improvement.

Clarifying Direction for a Statewide Quality Organization

Bringing alignment and clarity to a complex organization, defining a focused strategic direction to guide statewide impact.

Designing the 5-Year Strategic Plan for a Regional Emergency Preparedness Coalition

Creating a practical, future-ready roadmap to strengthen coordination, resilience, and response across regional partners.

Cascading Strategy into Operational Practice

Translating high-level strategy into clear, actionable steps that drive day-to-day decision-making and measurable results.

Benchmarking Birth Equity in Southern California

Using data-driven insights to identify disparities and establish benchmarks that advance equitable maternal health outcomes.

Innovating Community-Based Approaches for Social Impact Investing

Designing community-led strategies that connect investment with measurable, sustainable social impact.

Advancing Vaccination Strategies in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Developing targeted approaches to improve vaccine uptake and protect vulnerable populations in care settings.

Rethinking Strategy for State Hospital Associations

Reframing organizational strategy to better support members, strengthen advocacy, and respond to a changing healthcare landscape.

Redesigning Care Delivery Models

Reimagining service delivery to improve patient outcomes, efficiency, and system-wide sustainability.

Managing Downtime in a Multisite Health System

Building resilient operational strategies to minimize disruption and maintain continuity across complex healthcare environments.

Strategic Planning in Rural America

Supporting rural health systems with tailored strategies that address unique challenges and unlock long-term sustainability

Building a National Hub for Racial Health Equity

Creating a unifying platform to accelerate collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and progress toward racial health equity.

Mapping Missouri’s 5-Year Maternal Health Roadmap

Developing a comprehensive, stakeholder-driven roadmap to improve maternal health outcomes across the state.

Synchronizing Perinatal Care Change Concepts in Washington D.C.

Aligning diverse initiatives into a cohesive strategy to drive consistent and scalable improvements in perinatal care.

Missouri Maternal Health Integrated Care: A Vision for Value-Based Maternal Health

Shaping a forward-looking model that integrates care delivery with value-based outcomes for mothers and infants.

A Community-Led Approach to Maternal Care Deserts

Designing a flexible, insight-led strategy to address complex healthcare challenges and enable scalable, system-wide change.

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