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Season 1 | Episode 31 - Dec 15, 2025

Why You Can’t Hire Your Way Out of Access Problems: Inside Inova’s Virtual Capacity and Throughput Strategy

Episode Description

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In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, we unpack why expanding a physician workforce alone can't fully resolve access challenges and how Inova Health System has targeted the problem through a coordinated access-and-flow strategy.

Michelle Vassallo, VP of Operations, Clinical Enterprise, walks us through the systemwide standards, centralized infrastructure, and unified referral and transfer processes that allow Inova to unlock “virtual capacity” and move patients to the right place, at the right time, with the right resources. Listen to the episode by clicking one of the links below.

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About Our Host

Anika Rasheed

Anika is a Senior Analyst on the Strategy Catalyst team.