Compass Healthcare helps organizations across Western Canada plan for their future with robust, evidence-based clinical service planning and interest holder engagement.

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We work closely with healthcare leaders to understand the current and future needs of their communities, supporting system and capital planning projects.

We specialize in:

  • Clinical service planning for acute care, outpatient/community, and long-term care
  • Healthcare data analytics and capacity modeling
  • Clinical user group engagement, facilitation, and consensus building

Our work is informed by a deep understanding of the Canadian healthcare system. We are collaborative, transparent, and committed to helping our clients build the best plans for the communities they serve.

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John LaRusic

Our principal, John LaRusic, has over 17 years of experience in clinical service planning, healthcare consulting, data analytics and capacity modeling. He is passionate about making work accessible, trusted, and actionable.

In his previous role as Director of Development at AnalysisWorks Inc., John led development of the LightHouse software-as-a-service report offering that was adopted by all health authorities in BC, as well as the Edmonton Zone in Alberta.

John holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Masters in Mathematics (Operations Research) from Simon Fraser University.

John lives with his husband in Vancouver BC. He spends his summers on a softball field and winters in a curling club.

Our project work has taken us across Western Canada...
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
BC Emergency Health Services
Perinatal Services BC
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Northern Health Authority (BC)
Island Health Authority
Providence Healthcare BC
Yukon Hospital Corporation
Alberta Infrastructure
SaskBuilds and Procurement
Shared Health Manitoba
Our work relies on strong partnerships with the healthcare planning and infrastructure community...
Inform Planning
Arcadis
Cornerstone Planning
dgbk Architecture
aodbt Architecture
Kirsten Reite Architecture

"John has in depth knowledge of our data systems, clinical coding, and reporting in health care and thus has a breadth of expertise in our health care system to provide thoughtful and timely analysis, reporting, and written summaries. I’ve leaned on John to complete projection work to support planning projects and make sense of multiple data sets and solve complex problems and build business cases in the health care system. Given the complexities and challenges we’ve faced over the last year and a half, his skill set is proven to be helpful to solve our problems of today and tomorrow."

Jen Duff, Chief Operating Officer, BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
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We acknowledge we operate out of the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). Further, we acknowledge our work impacts Indigenous Nations across the colonized nation of Canada. This acknowledgement reminds us that our work must center First Nation, Metis and Inuit voices in a best effort to decolonize health care service planning and delivery.