Vanguard Health Compliance Group is a senior-practitioner advisory firm built for healthcare technology, federal health agencies, and regulated organizations whose compliance programs need to hold up under scrutiny.
Every engagement is scoped, written, and closed by the same senior practitioner from day one through closing memo. No junior staffing. No retained dependency. The work is built for the assessor.
The traditional compliance model is optimized for firm economics. Partner-level professionals scope engagements and disappear after signature. Junior associates deliver policies from a template library that shows up in the assessor's findings within the first week of fieldwork. VHCG was built as the inverse. Fixed scope. Senior delivery end to end. Documentation written against your actual infrastructure, not a template library.
Each discipline is delivered as a discrete engagement or as part of a unified compliance program build. Same hands on every artifact.
Full-spectrum program design from governance through policy libraries, risk registers, and board-level reporting structures. Programs are built as living documents your internal team can maintain after handoff.
HIPAA, HITRUST CSF v11, SOC 2 Type II, and NIST 800-53 architecture mapped against your actual infrastructure.
End-to-end audit coordination from evidence preparation through assessor briefings. Third-party risk programs and vendor compliance workflows.
ISO 42001 AI Management Systems and NIST AI RMF implementation for organizations deploying regulated AI in clinical and administrative contexts. Lead Auditor credentialed.
Standalone diagnostic engagements that produce a structured gap report and a prioritized remediation roadmap. Scoped against HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, or a combined cross-walk. The honest read on where the program stands today.
A compliance program is only as defensible as the senior practitioner who built it. If the partner cannot answer the assessor's question on the call, no one can. The Standard
Traditional firms scope at partner level and deliver at associate level. The artifacts look correct in a binder and collapse the moment an independent assessor opens them. VHCG is structured differently.
Fixed scope replaces billable-hour retainers. Senior delivery end to end. Documentation written against your actual infrastructure. The firm stays engaged through the first independent assessment and adjusts the work product based on assessor feedback at no additional cost.
At closeout, the client owns every artifact. The firm retains no intellectual property and pursues no continuous billing.
Read the practice philosophy→EHR vendors, clearinghouses, RCM platforms, clinical workflow tools, and digital health startups navigating HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC 2 simultaneously.
VA, DHA, CMS, and federal health agency advisory under NAICS 541611. SDVOSB set-aside eligible. Built by a former VHA OIG auditor.
Organizations deploying clinical or administrative AI under emerging governance regimes including ISO 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.
A complimentary scoping conversation, direct with the principal. We review your regulatory posture, identify the highest-risk gaps, and outline a clear path to audit readiness. If VHCG is not the right fit, we say so on the call.