Forbes | The Labor Crisis is Derailing Health Care Transformation

Without a stable and engaged workforce, health care organizations are limited in their ability to truly transform. Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien, on how organizations can address the ongoing labor crisis.


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Mergers and Acquisitions: Integrating Total Rewards Strategies to Drive Value

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.


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PRESS RELEASE | Health Care Organizations Deploy Cost-Cutting Initiatives as Labor Costs Grow

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.


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INFOGRAPHIC SERIES | Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey Insights

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.


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Case Study | Co-Sourcing: Don’t let critical compensation initiatives fall to the wayside

Learn how SullivanCotter worked with one organization to address time and resource constraints by assisting with compensation planning, management of annual survey submissions, and the delivery of additional strategic and operational support as needed.


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Case Study | Transform Your Operations with Co-Sourcing

SullivanCotter recently stepped in to provide support to a client who was not satisfied with their previous co-sourcing relationship – which caused them to fall behind on compensation management.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Total Rewards Pulse Survey

SullivanCotter recently surveyed 82 health care organizations to see how total rewards strategies are evolving in response to an increasingly competitive marketplace for talent.


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ARTICLE | Co-sourcing Strategic Compensation Management Initiatives

As health care organizations continue to struggle with ongoing clinical workforce shortages, it’s important to note that other non-clinical roles and shared services departments are facing similar staffing challenges. If in-house compensation and human resources teams are finding themselves overburdened or understaffed during such an unprecedented time, co-sourcing can provide interim support to help alleviate any constraints in timing, resources, recruitment or experience.


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PRESS RELEASE | Median Hourly Rates Up by Over 5% for Health Care Employees

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.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey

SullivanCotter’s 2023 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey features data from nearly 1,630 participating organizations on more than 600 jobs and approximately 1.4 million individual employees.


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ARTICLE | Assessing Pay Equity

In an article published by the American Association of Provider Compensation Professionals, SullivanCotter outlines how health care organizations can effectively monitor, measure and achieve pay equity.


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Instituting Layoffs Amidst a Labor Shortage

Despite continued labor shortages in vital patient-facing roles and the post-COVID “great resignation,” many health care organizations have had to consider layoffs in the past year. Human resources professionals are experiencing numerous operational pressures, often including an increased push to reduce labor costs. As these teams grapple with balancing increased burnout, turnover, and staffing shortages with a need to cut costs, they seek alternative strategies to address these challenges.


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ARTICLE | Studying the Effects of Pay Transparency

Many states have enacted pay transparency laws that are intended to enhance the visibility of compensation practices to job candidates and current employees.


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WEBINAR | 2023 Clinical Workforce Trends

View SullivanCotter's on-demand webinar, revealing the latest health care industry trends, informed by our recent employee workforce surveys.


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Pay Equity: More than an Annual Analysis

There are several statistical methods used to examine pay equity between select groups. However, all attempt to achieve the same ends of controlling for differences between groups when analyzing the compensation between those groups. Thus, if the groups are equivalent in all relevant respects, would they (e.g., men and women) be paid the same?


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Proactive Workforce Planning: Grounded in Data

Featured in Fierce Healthcare, SullivanCotter’s President and CEO, Ted Chien, outlines the importance of utilizing robust data and benchmarks to build a more resilient workforce model that helps support the delivery of high-quality care and enhance financial sustainability.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey

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.


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Hiring Gains Alone Won’t Solve the Health Care Workforce Crisis

Health care is in the midst of an ongoing workforce crisis as the demand for care is outpacing the supply of labor. To help fortify the nation's health care system by building a sustainable pipeline of future talent, Ted Chien, SullivanCotter's President and CEO, discusses how hospitals and health systems can meet this challenge through smarter technology, resilient teams, and excellence in leadership.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey

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.


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PRESS RELEASE | SullivanCotter Holdings, Inc. Expands Subsidiary Organizations with Strategic Leadership Hires

SullivanCotter Holdings, Inc., the nation’s leading human capital information management holding company for health care and not-for-profits/tax-exempt organizations, announces several important new hires within its Shared Services leadership team.   


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