Since our firm’s founding, Ascendient has been recognized as a nationwide leader in Certificate of Need applications. Our team has more than a century of combined experience with CON projects in more than a dozen states.

We bring a strategic lens to every engagement, helping clients – and regulators – think about community needs in a larger context and longer time frame. As champions of healthcare transformation, we use data and narrative to show how projects can meet today's needs while remaining relevant far into the future.

Having been through the CON process hundreds of times, we can offer value-added services that clients simply cannot find elsewhere, including an extensive database of CON applications, decisions, and litigation documents that allows us to anticipate how regulators are likely to view a specific CON request.

The process itself is part of the secret to our success. Our unique PARTner Framework ensures on-time, high-quality deliverables through a structured approach to Personnel, Alignment, Reviews, and Timelines. With more than 500 successful CON applications totaling billions of dollars in capital investment, we believe our PARTner Framework is the most tried-and-tested approach offered by any healthcare consulting firm.

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