Pediatric Health Care Organizations Have Distinct Needs

Addressing them requires a workforce strategy as specialized as the care delivered.

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“Pediatric health systems face unique workforce challenges—from specialized clinical roles to growing patient demand and financial pressures. Organizations need clear, data-driven insight to design workforce and compensation strategies that support clinical excellence and long-term sustainability.”

Clara Hurtt, Principal, SullivanCotter

Growing Pressure From Every Angle

Rising patient demand, persistent workforce shortages, and increasing financial pressure are placing pediatric health care organizations under significant strain. Inefficient care models, integration challenges, and misalignment between compensation and team-based care further limit organizations’ ability to respond effectively.

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Specialized Care & Clinical Complexity Require Tailored Workforce Strategies

Addressing the workforce realities of pediatric health care organizations requires thoughtful, data-informed workforce strategies that are as unique as the individual children you care for.

SullivanCotter provides pediatric-focused market intelligence, benchmarking, and analytics to inform decisions across compensation, performance, and governance. Through sector-specific insight and disciplined analysis, we help organizations strengthen leadership, support clinical excellence, and navigate long-term financial and operational challenges.

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Sustainable Operations

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Evolving Care Models

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Long-Term Organizational Performance

How We Help

Through our work with many of the nation’s leading pediatric institutions, SullivanCotter delivers insights that enable informed, data-driven workforce decisions.

Workforce Metrics Benchmarking

Benchmark your workforce against pediatric health care organizations across structure, cost, scale, and management span.

Business Valuations

Provide independent, defensible valuations to support transactions, alignment, and decision-making.

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Operating Model & Strategy Alignment

Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.

Organizational Design & Workforce Structure

Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.

Job Architecture

Define roles, levels, and expectations to support clarity and consistency across the organization.

Workforce Planning

Plan workforce capacity aligned with patient demand, access, and service line growth.

Corporate Governance

Strengthen governance structures to support oversight of performance and compensation.

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Workforce Compensation Benchmarking

Benchmark compensation against the market to assess competitiveness and inform pay decisions.

Compensation Design & Total Rewards

Design rewards that align with performance, retention, and organizational priorities.

Physician Compensation Design

Align physician compensation with productivity, quality, and organizational goals.

Benefits

Design benefits tailored to pediatric workforce needs.

Fair Market Value & Commercial Reasonableness

Ensure compensation arrangements are compliant and defensible.

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Performance Analytics & Advisory Services

Develop incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.

Optimize Team Effectiveness

Strengthen workforce alignment, collaboration, and accountability.

Clinical Workforce Optimization

Optimize how physicians, APPs, and the broader care team work together—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.

Leadership Succession & Development

Strengthen leadership pipelines and succession readiness.

Change Management

Support adoption of new strategies, structures, and ways of working to ensure successful and sustained change.

Physician Affiliation & Optimization

Evaluate physician and APP affiliation strategies and operating models to strengthen alignment, improve performance, and support sustainable growth across employed and affiliated provider structures.

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Workforce Metrics Benchmarking

Benchmark your workforce against pediatric health care organizations across structure, cost, scale, and management span.

Business Valuations

Provide independent, defensible valuations to support transactions, alignment, and decision-making.

Build the Right Organizational & Workforce Structure

Operating Model & Strategy Alignment

Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.

Organizational Design & Workforce Structure

Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.

Job Architecture

Define roles, levels, and expectations to support clarity and consistency across the organization.

Workforce Planning

Plan workforce capacity aligned with patient demand, access, and service line growth.

Corporate Governance

Strengthen governance structures to support oversight of performance and compensation.

Align Compensation & Rewards

Workforce Compensation Benchmarking

Benchmark compensation against the market to assess competitiveness and inform pay decisions.

Compensation Design & Total Rewards

Design rewards that align with performance, retention, and organizational priorities.

Physician Compensation Design

Align physician compensation with productivity, quality, and organizational goals.

Benefits

Design benefits tailored to pediatric workforce needs.

Fair Market Value & Commercial Reasonableness

Ensure compensation arrangements are compliant and defensible.

Accelerate Workforce & Organizational Performance

Performance Analytics & Advisory Services

Develop incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.

Optimize Team Effectiveness

Strengthen workforce alignment, collaboration, and accountability.

Clinical Workforce Optimization

Optimize how physicians, APPs, and the broader care team work together—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.

Leadership Succession & Development

Strengthen leadership pipelines and succession readiness.

Change Management

Support adoption of new strategies, structures, and ways of working to ensure successful and sustained change.

Physician Affiliation & Optimization

Evaluate physician and APP affiliation strategies and operating models to strengthen alignment, improve performance, and support sustainable growth across employed and affiliated provider structures.

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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.

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Featured Surveys

SullivanCotter gathers and provides market intelligence and actionable insights specific to the unique needs of pediatric health care systems.

Health Care Workforce Premium Bundle

Includes six survey reports: Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity, Health Care Management and Executive Compensation, Health Care Staff Compensation, Medical Group Executive Compensation, Physician Compensation and Productivity, and Physician Executive Compensation.

Health Care Workforce Bundle

Includes four survey reports: Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity, Health Care Management and Executive Compensation, Health Care Staff Compensation, and Physician Compensation and Productivity.

Health Care Staff and Nursing Bundle

Includes two survey reports: Health Care Staff Compensation and Registered Nursing Compensation.

Pulse on the Industry


Stay up to date with the latest research and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on workforce analytics, operating models, retention drivers, and organizational performance.

Our Full Capabilities

There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data

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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.

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Your 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.

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Your 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.

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SullivanCotter 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.

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