Who We Are – Our Experience – VVV Consultants LLC

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VVV Consultants LLC of Olathe KS is a “boutique” healthcare consulting firm specializing in healthcare strategy, research, and business development services. We are small, agile, have tremendous energy and focused on client needs. We look for market opportunities to further health delivery and & build community relations. Healthcare delivery is local.

We’re Here For You!

We are here to help providers “virtually” now more than ever before! We now offer virtual Zoom meetings with prospects and current clients to get things done. Zoom technology allows us to share and discuss important data, build project “next steps” & build consensus to complete project work on time and from a distance. We want to Zoom with you!

Our Team

Vince Vandehaar, MBA
Principal Consultant

Vince started his boutique consulting firm (VVV Consultants LLC) on 1/1/2009, after working for Saint Luke’s Health System of Kansas City for 16 years; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City for 2 years and Tillinghast Tower’s Perrin Actuarial Consulting for 2 ½ years. (Note: Vince was recruited to Kansas City in 1988 after working for Lutheran Mutual Life HQ in Waverly, Iowa for 10 years.) While with Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City – Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in March of 2003, Vince was Baldrige co-leader for Category 2 – Planning and Category 3 – Voice of Customer.

Over the last 11+ years of consulting, VVV Consultants LLC has focused on Research, Strategy and Development service offerings. Specifically, Vince facilitates strategic planning, creates proven business / marketing plan tactics & measures, facilitates / creates IRS-aligned Community Health Needs Assessments, conducts both qualitative & quantitative development research and coach’s new CEOs to grow community relations and develop leadership skills.

Vince teaches undergraduate (BA), MBA and MHA marketing & health care classes 20% of his time (since 1988) at Avila and/or Webster University and consults the remainder.

Vince is a Malcolm Baldrige coach, a professional moderator and actively involved in the National Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD), KAHCC, MAHPRM, Kansas City Employee Benefit Professional Association (ebpa), American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), the American Marketing Association – Kansas City Chapter (AMAKC) Healthcare SIG (Special Interest Group) co-chair and is an Sg2 advocate.

Vince is a farm kid from Bondurant, Iowa, married and resides in Olathe, Kansas. With these roots, Vince welcomes the opportunity to assist rural development. Vince graduated from Central College in Pella, Iowa in 1978 with a BA in Business Management and has his MBA (1988) from the University of Northern Iowa. With his free time, Vince enjoys Chiefs Football, Royals Baseball, Saturday morning pick-up basketball at age 65+, walking and bogey golf.

Cassandra Kahl, BHS MHA
Director, Project Management

Cassandra is responsible for all LLC project engagement (client project management – start to completion), for project fulfillment of consulting deliverables and promoting LLC HC consulting services.

Cassandra works closely with Principal to deliver quality consulting services to exceed client expectations. These focus services include in-depth Market Research, Strategic Planning, Marketing Plan development & fulfillment, Physician Manpower FTE Assessments, and IRS-aligned Community Health Needs Assessments / Implementation Plans. Specifically, Cassandra will identify HC development opportunities, examines marketing & operation processes to identify ways to “do things better” and proposes achievable recommendations to meet project goals.

Cassandra began her career with VVV Consultants LLC November 2020. For the previous 2 1/2 years, she served as a Lead Certified Pharmacy Technician for CVS. Her responsibilities included: overseeing a team of technicians and working closely with payors and physicians to managed patient profiles & medication dispensing.

Cassandra has a BS in Health Sciences from University of Kansas and her MHA from Park University – is due to be complete May 2021. Her MHA program has given gratifying insight into Marketing & Consumer Driven Healthcare, Organization of Healthcare Delivery System, Legal & Ethical Issues in Healthcare Administration, and Management of Health Information Systems. Cassandra also completed a summer internship in 2018 with Mayo Clinic’s – Red Cedar Physical Therapy Center Menomonie, WI.

Cassandra is from Maple, Wisconsin. She is also an independent nutrition coach where she actively helps individuals reach their health goals through multiple health change strategies. In her free time, Cassandra loves to travel the world, partake in outdoor activities such as hiking, spending time with her three fur babies, and serve as a mentor to young women in numerous areas of life.

McKenzie Green, BS MBA (Winter 23)

Associate Phone: (913) 908-1151 MEG@VandehaarMarketing.com

McKenzie Green joined VVV Consultants LLC in March 2022 part-time while finishing her last semester for her bachelor’s degree in business administration. McKenzie will earn credits Summer 2022 as an Intern and start her MBA in Marketing Fall 2022. McKenzie brings growing skills with her which include problem solving, leadership, communication, and critical thinking.

McKenzie first tasks include: project management, project fulfillment, and marketing LLC. She also works closely with Community Health Needs Assessments, Strategic Planning support, and Client More Marketing fulfillment.

Before joining VVV Consultants LLC, McKenzie worked as an associate at big box retail store gaining retail business skills in sales, management, and operations.

McKenzie graduated from Blue Valley West High School as Cum Laude. She attended Johnson County Community College and Baker University for dual credit during high school. She then attended Metropolitan Community College- Longview to obtain her Associates of Arts degree. She has since gone on to attend Avila University to get her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and will have her MBA in marketing in the winter of 2023.

McKenzie grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and in her free time, you can find her working out at the gym and learning new recipes in the kitchen. She also continues to play collegiate volleyball.