About The Ashland Group

Larry Grinwis founded The Ashland Group in 1993 and serves as its Senior Consultant. An area of specialization for The Ashland Group is transition planning and interim executive services for organizations whose chief executive has left or is planning to leave. Client organizations have included hospitals, community mental health systems, non-profit community agencies and a multi-disciplinary private practice clinic.

Ashland also works with organizations around a variety of issues relating to organizational change and managed healthcare. Activities have included project management, strategic planning, management reorganization, board and staff development, mergers and affiliations, organization turn-around and organization start-up. Client organizations have included HMOs, state trade associations, behavioral health organizations, aging and disability organizations and a variety of public and non-profit human service organizations.

In 1997 and '98 Ashland conducted "Managed Care Readiness Reviews" of qualified health plans bidding to manage Medicaid acute/primary care services in Michigan.

In 1999 and 2000 Ashland designed and led a project for the Michigan Department of Community Health that resulted in a plan to restructure the state's $1.3 billion Medicaid long-term care services. Ashland has also worked with local aging and disability organizations to help them plan for responding to these potential changes.

More recent additions to the Ashland service array include Executive coaching and improving team effectiveness.