This article focuses on common total rewards challenges that many health care organizations encounter during an M&A transaction. Recognizing and addressing these opportunities will help minimize potential risks and deal-breakers, prioritize pre- and post-merger activities, and support a successful implementation process.

As labor expenditure remains high due to ongoing health care workforce challenges, many hospitals and health systems are reevaluating the size and shape of their employee populations to offset rising costs and create a more affordable and sustainable workforce architecture. Learn about key findings from SullivanCotter’s 2023 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey.

Discover how the size, shape and cost of your health care workforce compares to the market with data from SullivanCotter's growing Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey database. Learn more from our recent series of infographics.

Learn about emerging trends in employee compensation - including base hourly pay increases, internal minimums, premium pay and more - from SullivanCotter's 2023 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey Report.

Utilizing data from SullivanCotter’s 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey – which includes information on 10 job families, 6 career level stages, and 3 demographic groupings – organizations can reevaluate their employee workforce planning and distribution efforts to help offset rising costs and create a more sustainable workforce architecture.

SullivanCotter’s 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey includes data from nearly 1,300 organizations on more than 1.2M individual employees- providing organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key employee workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.

Learn more from SullivanCotter’s recent Remote Work and Geographic Pay Pulse Survey, which examines how health care organizations are responding to what has changed with respect to remote work policies, geographic pay differentials, and staffing models.

As some organizations are transitioning back into the office, hospitals and health systems need to rethink which employees can and should work remotely, what these arrangements should look like, and how they should be paid.

Statistical outcomes do not always tell the whole story, and this is particularly true for studies on pay equity. SullivanCotter describes three areas where differences may exist, how they avoid detection in standard pay equity assessments, and what further analyses are required to help complete a story only partially told.

Utilizing data-driven insights from its Workforce Metrics Benchmark Database, SullivanCotter shares strategies for optimizing executive span of control with health systems.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2021 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey, featuring vital base salary and total cash compensation data for more than 1.2 million individuals nationwide.

Nursing skill mix is an important consideration in the design of nursing department staffing as hospitals and health systems continue to face critical staffing shortages.

SullivanCotter's Endowment and Foundation Investment Staff Compensation Survey offers a comprehensive look into compensation and pay practices for investment staff positions among college and university endowments, private foundations, health care and other not-for-profit organizations.

This year more than ever, medical groups require access to critical data-driven insights as they look to address the impact of COVID-19 on workforce compensation and productivity, prepare for the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule changes, and balance the need for competitive total reward programs against pressure on operating margins.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2020 Endowment and Investment Staff Compensation Survey

View highlights of the results from SullivanCotter's 2020 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey as well as considerations for the health care employee workforce during COVID-19 and through 2021 and beyond

Powered by SullivanCotter's proprietary survey data and research, Benchmarks360TM is a suite of intelligent, web-based products that enables health care organizations to analyze and visualize workforce compensation and clinical productivity.

SullivanCotter presents data from recent COVID-19 research, discusses compensation-related practices, and provides insight into how the human capital landscape may change after the pandemic subsides.

View highlights SullivanCotter's COVID-19 Executive and Employee Compensation Practices Survey series - featuring data and insights from more than 108 different organizations.

View highlights from SullivanCotter’s 2019 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Pay Practices Survey, which features data from more than 560 organizations on nearly 74,000 individual physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other clinicians.