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Hospital System Operational Readiness — Risk Assessment

Malloy & Co. Operating Partnerships

Hospital System Operational Readiness
Risk Assessment

17 Indicators Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready for Your Next Growth Phase

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How to Use This Assessment

Built from 30 years of working inside hospital systems — from the clinical floor to the C-suite. Answer each indicator using the appropriate scale. When complete, enter your information to receive your personalized score and readiness profile.

1Complete each section with your leadership team
2Rate behaviors by frequency; answer structural facts Yes or No
3Enter your contact information to unlock your score
4Review your section-by-section breakdown and overall readiness level
5Schedule a complimentary conversation with Kelly Malloy

Response Scales

Frequency Scale — Recurring Behaviors

1 — Never This does not occur in our organization

2 — Sometimes This occurs periodically or in some areas

3 — Often This is a consistent or widespread pattern

Yes / No — Structural Facts & Historical Events

Yes This is true of our organization

No This does not apply to our organization

Critical ×2 Weighted double — poses greatest organizational risk

Section 1 — Leadership & Organizational Structure

4 Indicators

The foundation of operational performance is clarity — in roles, accountability, and decision-making authority. When this foundation is unstable, everything built on top of it is at risk.

The CEO regularly steps into operational decisions that should be handled at the COO or director level. Critical ×2

Leadership Clarity

Accountability for operational outcomes is unclear or shared in ways that create confusion.

Accountability

The organization has experienced significant leadership turnover in the past 18 months with no structured transition or knowledge transfer process.

Succession Risk

There is no formal operational council or shared governance structure for non-nursing departments.

Governance

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Section 2 — Clinical-Operational Integration

4 Indicators

This is the gap most COOs cannot see clearly — because they have never worked a clinical floor. When clinical and operational functions are misaligned, the friction is invisible to administration but deeply felt by the people delivering care.

Clinical staff frequently work around formal processes rather than through them. Critical ×2

Process Integrity

Frontline clinical staff feel their operational concerns are not heard or acted upon by leadership.

Staff Engagement

Operational decisions affecting clinical departments are routinely made without clinical input.

Decision Quality

Patient flow inefficiencies are tracked as metrics but not actively managed as operational problems.

Patient Flow

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0/4

Section 3 — Service Line Performance & Growth Readiness

4 Indicators

Growth without operational infrastructure does not scale — it fragments. The following indicators identify whether your service lines are positioned to expand or simply absorb the pressure of growth.

Service line expansion plans are regularly delayed due to operational, staffing, or infrastructure constraints.

Growth Capacity

Physician engagement scores are declining or have plateaued despite targeted improvement efforts.

Physician Relations

Capital projects are routinely delivered behind schedule or over budget. Critical ×2

Execution

The organization lacks a clear framework for evaluating, launching, or expanding new service lines.

Strategic Infrastructure

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0/4

Section 4 — Employee Engagement & Operational Culture

3 Indicators

Employee engagement is not an HR metric — it is an operational indicator. When engagement erodes, turnover climbs, patient experience suffers, and operational performance deteriorates, often before leadership recognizes the connection.

Employee engagement scores have declined or remained flat for two or more consecutive survey cycles.

Engagement Trend

Turnover in key operational or clinical roles is higher than benchmark or difficult to explain. Critical ×2

Retention Risk

Leadership development and succession planning are not formalized below the C-suite level.

Pipeline Depth

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Section 5 — Compliance, Risk & Regulatory Readiness

2 Indicators

Compliance and operational performance are not separate disciplines. Organizations that treat them as separate functions often discover — too late — that their operational gaps are their regulatory exposure.

Ethics and compliance functions are siloed from operational leadership rather than integrated.

Compliance Integration

The organization has experienced regulatory citations, survey findings, or compliance concerns in the past two years linked to operational breakdowns. Critical ×2

Regulatory Exposure

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Your Assessment Is Complete

Enter your information below to unlock your personalized score, section-by-section breakdown, and readiness profile — or schedule a complimentary conversation directly.

Your Score & What It Means

Weighted risk score — five critical indicators count double. Each section is scored independently on a 0–100 scale.

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Complete all indicators above to see your readiness level.

About weighted scoring: Five indicators carry double weight because they represent the most measurable, externally visible, and organizationally costly risk patterns: CEO in operations, clinical workarounds, capital project execution, turnover above benchmark, and regulatory citations. Your overall score and each section score are expressed on a 0–100 scale for easy comparison.

Score by Section

Each section is scored independently. A strong overall score can mask a critical gap in one area — review each section below.

Leadership & Structure

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Clinical-Operational Integration

0 /100

Service Line & Growth

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Employee Engagement

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Compliance & Regulatory

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Malloy & Co. Operating Partnerships

Hospital System Operational Readiness
Risk Assessment

17 Indicators Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready for Your Next Growth Phase

How to Use This Assessment

Built from 30 years of working inside hospital systems — from the clinical floor to the C-suite. Answer each indicator using the appropriate scale. When complete, enter your information to receive your personalized score and readiness profile.

Complete each section with your leadership team

Rate behaviors by frequency; answer structural facts Yes or No

Enter your contact information to unlock your score

Review your section-by-section breakdown and overall readiness level

Schedule a complimentary conversation with Kelly Malloy

Response Scales

Frequency Scale — Recurring Behaviors

1 - Never

This does not occur in our organization

2 - Sometimes

This occurs periodically or in some areas

3 - Often

This is a consistent or widespread pattern

Yes / No — Structural Facts & Historical Events

Yes

This is true of our organization

No

This does not apply to our organization

Critical ^x2

Weighted double — poses greatest organizational risk

Section 1 — Leadership & Organizational Structure

The foundation of operational performance is clarity — in roles, accountability, and decision-making authority. When this foundation is unstable, everything built on top of it is at risk.

Section 2 — Clinical-Operational Integration

This is the gap most COOs cannot see clearly — because they have never worked a clinical floor. When clinical and operational functions are misaligned, the friction is invisible to administration but deeply felt by the people delivering care.

Section 3 — Service Line Performance & Growth Readiness

Growth without operational infrastructure does not scale — it fragments. The following indicators identify whether your service lines are positioned to expand or simply absorb the pressure of growth.

Section 4 — Employee Engagement & Operational Culture

Employee engagement is not an HR metric — it is an operational indicator. When engagement erodes, turnover climbs, patient experience suffers, and operational performance deteriorates, often before leadership recognizes the connection.

Section 5 — Compliance, Risk & Regulatory Readiness

Compliance and operational performance are not separate disciplines. Organizations that treat them as separate functions often discover — too late — that their operational gaps are their regulatory exposure.