Accelerating Workforce Retention: New Strategies for Nurse Executives In the Spring of 2023, Nursing Catalyst researchers examined top-performing med-surg units with low turnover to better define successful retention in 2023 and understand if traditional retention strategies, including Magnet principles, are still impactful. By re-examining nursing’s forces of magnetism, Nursing Catalyst is equipping nurse executives with […]
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Consumer-Centricity and How Health Systems Stack Up The pursuit of consumer-centricity as a means to improve patient loyalty and bolster margins is a strategic imperative for Chief Strategy Officers. In an unprecedented evaluation of the user experience, a parameter directly shaping a health system’s “consumer-centricity,” researchers from The Health Management Academy’s Strategy Catalyst team secret-shopped […]
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Re-Examining Nursing’s Forces of Magnetism In the Spring of 2023, Nursing Catalyst researchers wanted to better define successful retention in 2023 and, perhaps more importantly, understand if traditional retention strategies, including Magnet principles, are still impactful today. To answer these questions, the research team conducted 22 in-depth interviews and collected data from top-performing med-surg […]
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Cost management in leading health systems is top of mind for executive leaders as operating margins are under pressure. We polled COOs, CFOs, and CSOs, who unanimously listed cost management among their top 3 priorities in 2023. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still investing in consumer and digital strategic priorities like advancing the digital […]
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It’s becoming more common for certain key issues to rise to prominence, impacting every health care executive. Given the nationwide spike in nursing turnover and associated increase in labor costs, stabilizing the nursing workforce is a unifying priority across the C-suite. This strength of purpose was of the many reasons The Health Management Academy asked […]
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3 Essential Tips for Consumer and Digital Industry Partners Selling Healthcare Technology to Health Systems Unpredictable market conditions and stressed leading health system (LHS) budgets are hampering industry sales executives with solutions at the intersection of consumer and digital strategy. However, 90% of LHS* are increasing their healthcare technology investments over 2022, giving industry members […]
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Rising CIOs & CTOs Mona A. Baset VP, Digital Services Intermountain Healthcare Christopher Alton Brown VP Operations, Medical Group Cone Health Ronald Howard Carson II Executive Director Enterprise Application Services Nebraska Medicine Kathleen Fear, Ph.D. Director of Data & Analytics UR Health Lab, University of Rochester Medical Center Adrian Finemel Director of […]
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Payviders Are Already Impacting Health System Revenue Growth and Market Share In recent years, insurers have ramped up acquisitions of providers and practices. Payers and private equity have scooped up 32,000 physicians since 2020 – an 86% increase. By evolving towards paying and delivering care, many payers are more accurately described as ‘payviders’. We anticipate […]
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At The Health Management Academy, we’re celebrating 25 years of cultivating the premier community of healthcare’s influential changemakers – from the top U.S. health systems and innovative industry partners. And we’re just getting started. We continue delivering on our promise to drive health forward by providing C-suite leaders with a trusted community of their peers, […]
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Attempting to capture Gary’s legacy at The Health Management Academy in words is an impossible task, as it is truly immeasurable. Twenty-five years ago, he and our co-founder, Sherrie Jones, acted on a beautifully simple idea: health system and industry executives would require a deep, trusted, and wide community of peers to serve as a […]
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