Nursing, a cornerstone of healthcare, finds itself at a crucial juncture demanding a paradigm shift to address the challenges it is facing. This year promises to be pivotal, with nurse leaders confronting challenges simultaneously: Ongoing health system financial constraints Persistent workforce instability Regulatory ambiguity around mandated staffing ratios As we navigate these important issues, it […]
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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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Effective nurse managers have never been more critical to improving frontline retention. Yet, the growing scope of the role makes it difficult for many managers to connect, engage, and grow their teams. This session will outline the first wave of findings from an ongoing Nursing Catalyst series on measuring manager workload in a principled manner. […]
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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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In the past five years, hospitals have turned over 101.4% of their RN workforce. Virtual Nursing (VRN) pilots have become an effective means for staff engagement and retention, improved quality outcomes and overall reduction in nurse burnout. As health systems move beyond the pilot stage and push towards financial ROI on VRN, scaling these programs […]
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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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Establishing a sustainable community partnership strategy is top-of-mind for today’s health equity executives. To support solution acceleration, The Health Management Academy’s Health Equity Alliance team serves as a centralized brain trust for identifying, scaling, and assessing the impact of systemwide initiatives. Dr. Deb Salas-Lopez (SVP, Community & Population Health at Northwell Health) and Deb Moran […]
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As historical margin pools have shifted across the industry and within health systems, most systems have sought different opportunities for revenue diversification. The Strategy Catalyst team has taken a calculated look at the following and invite you to register for our webinar to learn: Which opportunities seem to be succeeding? How are top health systems thinking […]
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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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