Huron Consulting Group Expands Huron Healthcare with Strategy and Operations Expert Joseph Mauro

Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that Joseph Mauro has joined the Company as a managing director in its Huron Healthcare practice to assist hospital executives and physician leaders with the transition from a volume-based to a value-based care delivery system.

“Hospital leaders are focused on providing high-quality care and reducing costs, while concurrently developing strategies and capabilities for broader, transformational change. We are pleased to welcome Joe to our growing Huron Healthcare team and are confident that he will be a tremendous resource for clients addressing these strategic financial, operational and clinical priorities,” said Gordon Mountford, executive vice president, Huron Healthcare.

Mauro has more than 30 years of experience partnering with large hospitals and health systems on clinical and operational improvements. Mauro joins Huron Healthcare from Siemens Medical, where he served as national director, Strategic Accounts. In his role at Siemens, he worked with executives of large, national health systems to drive performance improvement, process reengineering, and clinical transformation. At Huron Healthcare, Mauro will utilize his vast healthcare background to continue to help healthcare executives address the ongoing pressures facing hospitals and health systems.

About Huron Healthcare

Huron Healthcare is the premier provider of performance improvement and clinical transformation solutions for hospitals and health systems. By partnering with clients, Huron delivers solutions that improve quality, increase revenue, reduce expenses, and enhance physician, patient, and employee satisfaction across the healthcare enterprise. Clients include leading national and regional integrated healthcare systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals and physician practices. Modern Healthcare ranked Huron Healthcare third on its 2014 list of the largest healthcare management consulting firms. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/healthcare or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs, leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex data, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and customized advice and solutions that are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. The Company provides consulting services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has worked with more than 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more than 350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.