Boutique Healthcare Project Rescue
Your portfolio company's $1M project is on fire.
We put it out before it becomes a capital loss.
Rescue Health Partners is a boutique advisory practice that rescues failing healthcare projects for private-equity-backed operators, EHR implementations, RCM transformations, M&A integrations, value-based care rollouts. We diagnose the bleed, stop it, and stabilize the project before it costs you carry.
Request a BriefThe Real Risk
The project that costs you the deal isn't on the diligence checklist.
By the time a healthcare project failure shows up on your portfolio company's monthly board pack, it's already past the point where it can be quietly absorbed.
A $6M EHR implementation that slips by 8 months becomes $11M with vendor change orders, productivity loss during dual-system operation, and burnout-driven clinical staff turnover. An RCM transformation that misses go-live becomes a denial-rate spike that compresses EBITDA the quarter before exit. An M&A integration that quietly stalls becomes a buyer-side diligence finding that knocks 0.5x off the multiple.
These aren't operational hiccups. They're write-downs in slow motion. And the operators living inside them often can't see the failure pattern, because they're inside the project, not above it.
That's where we come in.
What we do
What we do, specifically.
We rescue failing healthcare projects. That's it. We don't do strategy decks, we don't do change management theater, and we don't do "transformation roadmaps." We diagnose, intervene, and stabilize.
Diagnose
We assess the project against six categories of failure, refined across 30+ years and 150+ rescues. In 30 days or less you have a written diagnosis that names what's actually broken, not the symptoms, the root causes, and what it will take to fix.
Intervene
We embed at the project level. Not as advisors with recommendations, but as operators with decision rights. We stop the bleeding: scope discipline, executive sponsorship, vendor accountability, team stabilization. Whatever the project actually needs, in the order it needs.
Stabilize
We hand it back to your team in better shape than we found it, with the discipline, governance, and operating cadence to keep it that way. We're not trying to become permanent. The exit is the point.
Who we work with
Not for everyone. Intentionally.
Who we work with
- You're a private equity investor with a healthcare portfolio company sitting on a project that's behind, over budget, or quietly off the rails.
- You're an operating partner whose portco CEO keeps reporting "yellow" status on a project you suspect is actually red.
- You have a $1M+ project that, if it fails, will materially impact your portco's exit valuation, EBITDA at sale, or buyer-side diligence outcome.
- You need an outside read from someone who has rescued projects exactly like this one before.
Who we don't work with
- You need long-cycle strategy consulting or transformation roadmaps.
- Your project is on track and you're looking for validation, not intervention.
- You're seeking a firm that will produce decks. We produce outcomes.
Start Here
A Confidential Portfolio Project Risk Brief.
No Charge · No Pitch · No Obligation
Send us your healthcare portfolio. We'll review it confidentially and send you back a written brief identifying the 2–3 portfolio companies most likely to be sitting on a project that becomes a $1M+ write-down inside the next 12 months, based on public signals, our pattern recognition, and 30 years of rescue experience.
We do this because if we're right about even one company in your portfolio, the conversation we have next is the only one that matters.
- A written 8–12 page brief, delivered within 14 days.
- Specific portfolio companies named, with the failure signals we're seeing.
- A 30-minute follow-up call with Brian to discuss findings.
We accept three portfolio reviews per quarter. Strictly confidential. NDA available on request.
The Engagement
How an engagement actually works.
Diagnostic
Weeks 1–2
We assess the project end-to-end against our six categories of failure. We deliver a written diagnosis with named root causes and a recovery roadmap.
Intervention
Weeks 3–22
We embed at the project level with decision rights. We stop the bleeding, restore discipline, and execute against the recovery plan. Weekly partner-level reporting.
Stabilization
Final 2–4 weeks
We transition back to your team with documented governance, a 90-day operating cadence, and clear success criteria. Your team owns it from here.
Optional Retainer
As needed
Some engagements continue with a light advisory retainer to monitor stability through go-live or other major milestones.
Engagement scale
Typical engagements run 8–26 weeks. Investment: $50K–$250K depending on project size and intervention depth. Smaller engagements available for diligence and assessment-only work.
About Us
Who's behind Rescue Health Partners.
Brian Munroe has spent 30+ years rescuing failing projects across healthcare, financial services, technology, and government. He authored the Rescue My Project™ methodology, peer-reviewed and originally published by the Project Management Institute (PMI Global Congress, 2010). He served as President and Chairman of PMI's Troubled Project Specific Interest Group, and his work is cited as a primary source in academic research on project failure recovery.
Over the last decade, his practice has concentrated heavily in healthcare, EHR implementations, RCM transformations, M&A clinical integrations, and value-based care rollouts at health systems, MSOs, specialty practices, and PE-backed platforms. He has rescued projects for organizations ranging from regional health systems to Fortune 500 healthcare technology platforms.
Rescue Health Partners is his focused practice for private-equity-backed healthcare. He works with a small portfolio of clients each year, by design.
If something on this page sounds like a project in your portfolio, Let's talk.
Or reach Brian directly: brian@rescuehealthpartners.com · 702-703-6074