Consulting for community health centers
More capacity to move your health center forward.
Experienced FQHC leadership, available by the project. Bring in a senior operator to take on the work your team does not have room for, and hand it back finished.
The list you already have
Every health center leader keeps a running list of improvements they know would matter. A workflow that wastes hours a week. A project that stalled two quarters ago. A program that needs honest evaluation before the next grant cycle.
The barrier is rarely knowing what to do. It is time, leadership depth, and capacity. Your team is already at full stretch keeping the doors open and the visits covered, and the work that would actually move the organization forward keeps sliding to next quarter.
Nothing on that list gets done by adding it to someone's plate again.
What I take on
Scoped to what your health center actually needs right now, for as long as it needs it.
Move the stalled initiative
Own a project end to end and report back on it: grant deliverables, a new service line, a site opening, a system implementation.
Cover the seat during a search
Step in short term as CEO, COO, CFO, or another executive role while you recruit, so the organization keeps moving instead of holding its breath.
Develop the managers you promoted
Direct coaching for middle and senior managers, including clinicians who moved into leadership and were never given the training for it.
Find out what is actually happening
An honest look at a workflow, program, or department, and a plain account of what works, what does not, and what to do about it.
Make the data answer something
Turn productivity, financial, and reporting data into a clear picture your leadership team and board can act on.
Get your team using AI well
Practical training for staff new to generative AI: where it genuinely saves time, how to write a useful prompt, and what must never be pasted into it.
- Senior capacity without a permanent hire
- Someone who has sat in the chair
- Scope, timeline, and cost defined before anything starts
Who you would be working with
You know what your health center needs. What you do not have is one more experienced leader with room on their plate.
Caleb Sandford is a former California health center CEO with 13 years experience in Healthcare Operations, Finance, and Transformation. That range means operations, finance, and change management are one conversation rather than three separate engagements, and it means recommendations account for what implementation actually takes in a resource-constrained environment.
How it works
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Start a conversation
Twenty minutes on what is stuck. No obligation and no prepared pitch.
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Scope the need
We define the work, the timeline, and the cost in writing before anything begins.
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Let me take it from there
You get progress and decisions to make, not more work on your own plate.
Get in touch
Let's talk about what has been waiting.
Email, call, or text. The first conversation usually takes twenty minutes and there is nothing to sign.