Assessing Your Workforce
Data-driven benchmarking and analysis to help you evaluate workforce structure, compare to peers, and align roles and resources with care delivery and organizational goals.
Contact Us to Get StartedEffective Workforce Decisions Begin with Clarity & Context
Without a clear, data-driven understanding of how your workforce compares to peers—in size, shape, span of control, performance, and productivity—structural issues often remain hidden until they begin to affect access, cost, quality, or workforce sustainability.
Traditional internal data alone rarely provides the context needed to answer the questions that arise. Without credible benchmarking and workforce insights grounded in relevant market comparisons, leaders lack the objective view required to make confident decisions about hiring, role alignment, workforce investments, and long-term planning.
Partnering with SullivanCotter
Gain the Perspective You Need
Health care organizations partner with us to move from workforce complexity to clarity. We help leaders take a holistic, data-informed view of how workforce size, role mix, spans of control, and reporting relationships function across departments, specialties, and care settings—and how those elements compare to their peers.
By combining industry-leading benchmarks with practical insight into care delivery and operations, we identify where structures enable performance and where they create friction. The result is a clearer understanding of what’s working, what needs to evolve, and what actions will strengthen accountability, cost management, and long-term workforce sustainability.
Assessment Expertise
We help leaders understand how workforce structure impacts performance, efficiency, and sustainability.
Industry-Leading Benchmarks
350+ Health Care Experts
Practical Insights
How We Help
SullivanCotter offers a suite of capabilities designed to help health care organizations evaluate workforce structure, benchmark against peers, and identify opportunities to strengthen performance, efficiency, and sustainability—including insights that support workforce decisions related to affiliation and alignment strategies.
Using proprietary workforce demographic, organizational structure, financial, efficiency, and performance data, SullivanCotter helps leaders evaluate how their workforce compares to relevant peer organizations. Our benchmarking insights provide an objective view of workforce size, role distribution, leadership structure, and spans of control—supporting informed decisions tied to care delivery, organizational growth, and affiliation-related workforce integration.
Understanding provider supply and demand is essential to sustainable care delivery. SullivanCotter’s Provider Needs Assessment leverages physician- and APP-specific data to help organizations evaluate medical staff supply, identify workforce gaps, and assess future resource needs—down to a ZIP-code level.
Provide independent, defensible valuations to support transactions, alignment, and decision-making.
Partner with SullivanCotter
Through Co-Sourcing
SullivanCotter’s co-sourcing model provides embedded support within your HR and compensation function—delivering ongoing benchmarking, administration, and advisory expertise.
We work alongside your team to maintain operational continuity, strengthen governance, and ensure consistent, data-driven execution. Our approach helps organizations manage complexity while building long-term internal capability.
Learn MoreCase Study
Powering Provider Assessment
Client
Dayton Children’s Hospital, 400+ Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers
Strategic Focus
Strategic workforce planning prioritizing growth and alignment
Challenge
Sought a financially viable approach to accurately predicting patient needs and budgeting for clinical staffing
Experiencing swift growth of its Physician and APP workforce, Dayton Children’s Hospital turned to SullivanCotter to formulate a master plan for clinical provider recruitment aligned with today’s financial realities. Industry-leading workforce intelligence powered the assessment and delivered a purpose-designed three-year plan.
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The Surveys Behind the Insights
Tap into SullivanCotter’s industry-leading workforce and compensation surveys to gain the objective benchmarking intelligence needed to assess workforce structure, evaluate market positioning, and support informed workforce decisions.
Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey
As health care organizations seek to optimize care delivery and improve performance, effectively managing workforce size, shape, and complexity remains key. This survey helps organizations understand how their workforce size, distribution, and cost compare to market practices.
Advanced Practice Provider Leadership and Organizational Survey
As health care organizations seek to transform care delivery by improving access, quality, services, and affordability, supporting the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce and optimizing leadership practices are essential. This survey highlights leadership roles, integration strategies, and workplace infrastructure for better APP workforce management.
Pulse on the Industry
Stay up to date with the latest research, insights, and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on workforce analytics, organizational performance, provider supply and demand, and evolving care delivery models.
Our Full Capabilities
There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
Our Full Capabilities
There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
How does your health care workforce compare to its peers? At SullivanCotter, we deliver sophisticated analytics and actionable insights to help you evaluate your organization’s size, structure, cost, and performance — so you can make confident, data-driven decisions.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Metrics Benchmarking
Learn MoreYour system’s organizational design, operating models, and workforce structures are deeply interconnected. How can you ensure they’re all working in alignment to support strategy, performance, and care delivery? We partner with health care leaders to build dynamic and scalable solutions that adapt to evolving market demands.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Learn MoreYour people are your purpose. Design total compensation and rewards programs that attract, retain, and motivate the right talent. Using deep industry insight, proprietary benchmarking data, and tailored consulting, we partner with organizations to build competitive pay structures that balance workforce needs with overall financial imperatives.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Compensation Benchmarking
Compensation Design & Total Rewards
Fair Market Value & Commercial Reasonableness
Learn MoreSullivanCotter helps health care leaders improve workforce effectiveness and organizational performance by aligning strategy, structure, and talent. Through data-driven benchmarking and expert guidance, we enable organizations to optimize team effectiveness, support leadership development and succession planning, and accelerate change.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Performance Analytics & Advisory Services
Leadership Succession & Development
Physician Affiliation & Optimization
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Ready to know where you stand on the way to driving stronger organizational performance?
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