Appletree Consulting

About Appletree

Healthcare experience from the front line to the executive table.

Appletree Consulting is a founder-led healthcare advisory firm built on a simple belief: strategy creates value only when it works in practice—across the clinical, operational, technological, leadership, and patient realities of care.

Jeff Sommer, founder and principal of Appletree Consulting

Founder and Principal

Jeff Sommer, PT, DPT, MBA, MS

Cornell Johnson MBA · Weill Cornell MS in Healthcare Leadership

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Jeff Sommer is a healthcare operator whose career spans direct patient care, entrepreneurship, enterprise operations, quality, and clinical innovation. Over more than two decades, he has progressed from treating patients and building his own physical therapy practice to leading multidisciplinary teams across home health, hospice, physician practice, and community health.

He has designed care pathways, launched clinical programs, led quality and innovation functions, improved operating performance, and guided the responsible adoption of virtual care, analytics, and AI. That experience shapes Appletree’s approach: understand the operating reality, identify the changes that matter, and work alongside leaders and teams until the solution can stand on its own.

Perspective and proof

Experience built across healthcare—and tested in practice.

  1. Clinician

    Direct patient care

    Clinical perspective

  2. Practice Founder

    Built and transitioned a physical therapy practice

    Operator’s discipline

  3. Enterprise Leader

    Operations, quality, and innovation

    Builder mentality

  4. Trusted Advisor

    Partnership for healthcare leaders

    Executive perspective

Why Appletree?

A boutique partnership, deeply engaged from strategy through implementation.

Jeff stays directly engaged from the first conversation through implementation, bringing senior clinical and operational perspective close to the work.

Each engagement is shaped around the organization’s mission, operating reality, team capacity, priorities, and stage of growth. The work happens alongside leaders and staff so the solution belongs to the people who will sustain it.

The work should fit the organization—not require the organization to fit a framework.

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