Smarter Workforce Planning The workforce challenge facing healthcare organizations across the country is real, persistent, and growing more complex with each passing year. Clinical staff shortages, high turnover rates, the…

Ensuring Staffing Excellence When a hospital or clinic makes a staffing decision, it is making a patient care decision at the same time. The clinical professionals who show up to…

Transforming Surgical Care The image of surgery that most people carry large incisions, long hospital stays, and weeks of recovery describes a reality that is becoming increasingly rare in well-equipped…

Minimizing Surgical Trauma For generations, undergoing surgery meant preparing for significant physical disruption, a large incision, a lengthy hospital stay, and a recovery period that kept people away from their…

Whenever a patient undergoes an operation, recovers in an intensive care unit or receives pain relief in childbirth, something unseen is doing vital work behind the scenes. It flows silently…

Improving Heart Wellness The heart works every moment of every day without pause. It is the organ that everything else depends on, and when something goes wrong with it, the…

Maintaining Cardiovascular Wellness Most people do not think about their cardiovascular health until something forces them to. A concerning symptom, an alarming reading at a routine appointment, or a frightening…

Healthcare Market Shifts Healthcare has always been complex and heavily regulated, but the pace of change right now feels different from the gradual shifts of previous decades. Technology is changing…

Strategic Decision Making There is a tension at the heart of pharmaceutical leadership that does not go away with experience; it only becomes more familiar. On one side sits the…

Performance-Driven Systems Walking into a hospital or a clinic, most people focus on the clinical encounter, the physician, the diagnosis, the treatment. What is less visible but equally consequential is…