Sg2 Perspectives

Vizient Health Equity Strategy Accelerator: Finding Organizational Clarity in Advancing Health Equity

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, Sg2 Principal, and Sg2 Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss Vizient’s Health Equity Strategy Accelerator, a rapid-cycle strategic course designed to help organizations understand their ambition to address health equity goals and their organizational readiness to address and implement health equity strategic initiatives. Jayme, Karyl and Eric detail not only how the Strategy Accelerator  program helped organizations assess their health equity needs and what organizations need to consider as they move forward with their strategic plans, but also key findings such as the need to improve upon data collection and where the highest community vulnerabilities lie within a local market.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

The Year Ahead: Top Health System Priorities for 2022

Sg2 is composed of a future-focused group of strategists, and at the beginning of each year, we walk our members through our perspective on the top trends, issues, and opportunities for hospitals and health systems for the coming year in our Year Ahead webinar. In this episode, Sg2’s Associate Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, Senior Advisor Steve Jenkins, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to talk about the health care landscape for 2022 and areas of strategic focus for many organizations: workforce challenges and solutions; competition stemming from M&A, particularly in primary care and with specialty physicians; analytical rigor in health equity strategy; and how to think about growth opportunities through a new framework consisting of three elements.

 

Sg2 members can watch 2022: The Year Ahead webinar on-demand here.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Health System Growth Priorities: Stories from the Field

For the first time on Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome two members of Sg2’s Client Service Delivery team, Principal, Sg2 Client Relations, Alison Wishnick and Client Relations Director Katie Leo. In this episode, Alison and Katie talk to us about what they’re hearing from Sg2 member strategic planning and executive teams regarding their priorities for 2022, including a return to long-term strategic and capital planning and utilizing data to leverage value and inform their health equity strategies.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Building Organizational Resiliency: How Children’s Hospitals Have Refined Their Strategies During Uncertain Times

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we take you inside Sg2’s 2021 Children’s Hospital Group Affinity Meeting, providing audio from our Children’s Hospital Enterprise Member Panel. Facilitated by Sg2 Principal Rebecca Limestall and Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, guest panelists Ashlie Hilbun, EdD, MSW, CFRE, FACHE, from Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Divya Joshi, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACPE, from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Satyan Lakshminrusimha, MD, FAAP, from UC Davis Children’s Hospital; and Michelle McGuire from Children’s National Hospital share lessons learned and strategies deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how their organizations are addressing workforce challenges and focusing on pediatric behavioral health.

Sg2 members can access more resources from our 2021 Children’s Hospital Affinity Group Meeting here.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

What Is on the Minds of Health System Boards?

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re focusing on health system boards: what they are focused on right now, as well as what they may be focused on in the future. Sg2 Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Principal Jeff Moser join us to discuss how board interactions have changed over the past two years; the current hot topics at board updates (eg, workforce, innovation, capital planning, growth); and what boards might be thinking about in the year ahead (eg, consumerism, M&A, population health and value-based care).

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

What’s the Real Market Opportunity? Utilizing Sg2 Insurance Coverage Estimates to Understand Local Payer Enrollment

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Director and podcast host Trevor DaRin, Associate Principal Brian Esser and Director Tori Richie dive into Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates, an analytic tool built by Sg2 to help our members not only understand what their market looks like from a payer enrollment perspective but also explore the local dynamics that might change those enrollment patterns in the future. Trevor, Brian and Tori discuss Medicare, Medicaid and commercial health insurance, as well as the health insurance exchanges, covering the larger trends and our projections for how the landscape may change over the next five years, including the impacts of the public health emergency and policy/regulatory changes.

For more on the key payment and policy impacts across payer classes, Sg2 members can watch our recent Strategic Payment Update and What to Consider for 2022 webinar on-demand here.

 

Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates Click here

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Sg2 AMC Summit 2021: Rearranging the Psychological Furniture of AMC Systems of CARE

Some of Sg2’s earliest members were academic medical centers (AMCs), so we have always made it a priority to engage with them and understand their challenges—which is what our Sg2 AMC Summit is all about. This week, Sg2 General Manager, AMCs, and National Vice President, Client Relations, Michael Humphrey and Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, join Sg2 Perspectives talk about the biggest takeaways from our 18th annual AMC Summit, which took place this past October. Mike and Justin discuss pressing AMC challenges around workforce, capacity, community health system competition and service distribution; share specific examples of how AMCs are adapting for sustainability and rightsizing their ambulatory footprints; and provide insight into what AMCs will be focused on in 2022.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Accelerating Ambulatory Strategy

Today on Sg2 Perspectives we’re all about ambulatory strategy, and we’re approaching it from two different angles. First, Sg2 Principal Brianna Motley and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss the Ambulatory Strategy Accelerator program led by Sg2’s parent company Vizient, which is a fast-paced, interactive program designed to not only help member organizations narrow down their ambulatory strategic priorities but also provide them with a collaborative community to share their learnings and challenges. Then Sg2 Senior Consulting Director Jamie Logsdon joins us to talk about how we are using insights from the Ambulatory Accelerator Program to help inform our work with members on their ambulatory strategy projects, in particular, leveraging market prioritization amidst competitive pressure, from framework to implementation.

 

Learn more about the Ambulatory Strategy Accelerator program here.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Have a Plan Before You Need the Plan: Where Contract Labor Is Now and Where It Is Going

Most health systems have been struggling with workforce issues for months, with the larger trends reverberating through contract labor and vice versa. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we are joined by VP of Operations Melanie Bell, MSN, RN, CENP, and SVP David Hermann from Vaya Workforce Solutions who share their insights on the current contract labor landscape, the successes and challenges of deploying contract nursing at scale, and what contract labor may look like in the near-term as well as long-term.

Vaya Workforce Solutions Click here

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

How Strategy Teams Can Seize the Opportunity to Connect With Consumers for Growth

With the pandemic, every industry is experiencing a change in consumer expectations and how consumers interact with their products. Health care has some similarities to other industries, as well as some unique differences, so we recently reached out to health care consumers to ask how their expectations and preferences have changed over the past 18 months. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principal Mark Larson joins host Trevor DaRin to break down the survey results and share insights on our main takeaways: accelerated demand for virtual care alternatives and care at home, increased trust in clinicians, consumer attitude toward the shift to ambulatory care, and access to care through a health equity perspective.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

The Process of Digital Transformation as Told by a Panel of Health System Executives

Last week, Sg2 held an expanded edition of Executive Summit, our leading member conference focused on health system enterprise strategy. Today’s Sg2 Perspectives features audio from three of our guest panelists—Dr David Carlson, SVP, Provider Enterprise, and Chief Provider Officer, MultiCare (WA); Mikki Clancy, Chief Digital Officer, Premier Health (OH); and Edward Rafalski, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, BayCare Health System (FL)—who shared their organizations’ digital strategy and how it fits into their organizational goals, from virtual health and consumer and provider preferences to leveraging partnerships to further health equity initiatives.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn. 

Moving Infusions to the Home: Is It a Health System Risk or Opportunity?

Sg2 has gotten many questions from members this year on care shifting to the home, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, Vizient Senior Director of Pharmacy Services Carina Dolan and Senior Director of Pharmacy Consulting Brian Hardy and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join us to discuss the shifting of infusions from hospital and clinic-based campuses to the home, from factors causing the current accelerated shift pace to regulatory and safety concerns and patient satisfaction.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Want to Optimize Your System of CARE? Align Your Incentives!

This week, Sg2 Principal Tawnya Bosko, DHA, and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join Sg2 Perspectives for the final episode in our unofficial System of CARE series. Tawnya and Cory take a comprehensive look at incentives and how they drive how the System of CARE is used, including fee-for-service environments vs value-based arrangements, the radiation oncology model and how health systems can evaluate incentives in terms of utilization impact across the System of CARE.

 

Revisit episode 77, System of CARE: Optimizing Your Ambulatory Strategy, and episode 73, System of CARE: AMC Channel Strategy, for more on the System of CARE.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Team: FHN’s Strategy for Integrated Care Transitions and Remote Patient Monitoring

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, joins Trevor DaRin to interview FHN Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer Kathryn Martinez, MSNRN, FACHE, on the health system’s integrated approach to care transitions—including making the case for ROI and setting up community liaison programs to assist with culturally competent care—and its success with remote patient monitoring technology, from data management and involvement of complex care managers to partnering with public agencies for help in rural areas.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Going Beyond Knee Replacement: Orthopedic Opportunities and Strategies for Growth

This week, we get back to our service line conversations as Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Sg2 Director Ryota Terada and Vizient Consulting Director Joe Tomaro, who join us to discuss all things orthopedics. Ryota and Joe dig into the landscape for hip fractures and hip and shoulder replacement; the procedural shift to ambulatory settings; and health system opportunities for cost savings and partnerships, as well as how to understand the margins.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.