have no junior staff; CCG’s principals are their consultants and have an average of 35 years experience in health care. Many CCG principals have been partners or senior managers with Big-4 consulting firms and/or senior executives of hospital groups or academic medical centers. Among us they have consulted with over 1,000 health care organizations including all of the hospitals listed on the US News and World report Best Hospital Honor Roll. They do not sell large-scale implementation projects and do have revenue sharing relationships with vendors; nor do they develop, sell or resell software or hardware products. Therefore, they can be completely objective in their analysis and recommendations.