Richard O, Zimmer, MBA, CHE
Practice Director

Mr. Zimmer has over twenty-eight years of healthcare consulting and management experience emphasizing resource management. He has worked with major for-profit hospital chains, teaching and community based hospitals, and Big Five accounting firms. Spanning every major hospital department, Mr. Zimmer has successfully conducted consulting engagements improving processes throughout the organizations of over 200 different clients. His areas of expertise include non-clinical quality and operations improvement, reengineering, cost accounting, benefits realization, and productivity improvement.

Mr. Zimmer holds a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University. He has spoken widely on resource management issues to a variety of groups including Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and numerous state hospital associations. He has published articles and is a contributing author with Aspen Publishers. A Diplomat with the American College of Healthcare Executives, Mr. Zimmer is also a Senior Member of both HIMSS and HFMA and an esteemed recipient of both the HFMA’s Folmer Bronze and Reeves Silver Merit Awards.