On the ground in Northeast
The Northeast corridor is the most concentrated and competitive healthcare market in the country. Boston's academic gravity, Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey, and the Harvard and Tufts teaching networks, runs down the I-95 spine into New York's giants (Northwell, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian), through a New Jersey market reshaping itself by affiliation (RWJBarnabas, Hackensack Meridian, Atlantic Health), and on to Philadelphia (Penn Medicine, Jefferson) and New Haven (Yale New Haven). It is a corridor of academic medicine, organized labor, dense payer markets, and near-constant merger and integration activity. The executives who thrive here are as comfortable with governance and academics as they are with operations.
Who we place
Why boards and PE partners choose us
- We reach the leaders who aren't looking. The best executive for your seat is running someone else's right now. We bring them to you, confidentially.
- A senior specialist runs your search. Your seat is handled by a senior consultant who focuses on exactly this specialty, under our US healthcare Sector Head. Not a junior associate and a database.
- Healthcare is all we do. We know the difference between a clinician with a title and a leader who can run a P&L and a medical staff.
- Retained means all-in. We commit the full team to one search and stay until the right person signs. Most of ours close in 30 to 90 days.
- A global bench behind a local search. ISG runs in 50-plus countries with 1,200-plus partners, so no leader is out of reach.
The Northeast healthcare market
- Major systems include Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey, Northwell, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, RWJBarnabas, Hackensack Meridian, Atlantic Health, Penn Medicine, Jefferson, UPMC, and Yale New Haven
- A dense, academic, and highly competitive corridor
- Frequent affiliations and system integration driving C-suite and physician-executive turnover
- Coverage across New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut
Representative engagements
Representative, anonymized examples. Details and locations changed to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
- Retained on a regional Chief Clinical Officer search for a multi-hospital system in the Northeast.
- Advising a Northeast system on senior leadership through a major affiliation.
Frequently asked questions
Which states does your Northeast coverage include?
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, across both major systems and academic medical centers.
Do you handle academic medical center leadership?
Yes, including dual clinical and academic roles at the corridor's teaching hospitals.
How long does a search take?
A retained search typically runs 30 to 90 days.
Meet your search partner
Lee Fossey leads the US Healthcare Executive Search practice for ISG Americas, with a team of senior consultants each focused on a specialty, so your search is run by someone who lives in that corner of the market. Across nearly three decades in search, the practice has helped hospitals, health systems, and private-equity-backed platforms place the leaders who change their trajectory, and on the global ISG platform that reach extends to more than 50 countries. Lee would rather have one honest conversation about your search than send you a proposal.
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