Jim Braley joins FOCUS as a Senior Advisor. For the past 11 years he served as Senior Managing Director and Managing Director in the FTI Healthcare group of FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and its predecessor companies based in Brentwood, Tennessee. Mr. Braley served as a project leader, directing teams that assessed, advised and guided hospitals in improving competitiveness, operational improvement and financial viability. His expertise covers hospital operations, new service development, managed care, specialty care management, creditor relationships, board and medical staff relations, public hospital management, business plan development, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Active Labor Act regulations, physician relations, productivity management and academic health science center management.
Mr. Braley’s experience includes leading a team that turned a $25 million loss to break-even in 14 months and then to a positive bottom line for a large, public, academically affiliated health system. Additionally, as interim chief operating officer and project leader for a three-hospital system in California, Mr. Braley helped raise EBITDA from break-even to $20.5 million. He also provided leadership, assessment, implementation and day-to-day management services for a southwestern sole provider, taking the facility from annual losses of $40 million to a positive bottom line that continues to be sustained.
His prior experience includes serving as multi-facility manager and chief executive officer (CEO) in academic medical center, acute care and specialty hospital settings. He became a multi-hospital manager in 1983 when he was appointed group vice president with the nation’s largest manager of not-for-profit hospitals. Early in his career, he served as CEO of hospitals in Tennessee and Texas.
Mr. Braley holds a B.S. from the University of Montana and has completed postgraduate work in hospital administration at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Mr. Braley is also a Life Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Contact Information:
James J. Braley
10464 Big Canoe
Jasper, GA 30143
Cell: 770-262-3601
jim@fleetfeetjohnscreek.com