Optimizing Clinician Affiliation to Drive Strategy and Performance

Maintain effective relationships and foster greater engagement with clinicians to support long-term system sustainability.


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INFOGRAPHIC | Leveling Up: Executive Job Titling

A comprehensive job architecture and titling framework lays the foundation for your leadership team to thrive. View our infographic to learn more!


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Executive Span of Control | Identifying the Optimal Structure

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


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Optimize your job titles to support a more engaged and accountable workforce

Clear and consistent job titles are powerful tools for attracting and retaining top talent, cultivating employee engagement, and supporting a well-developed career framework.


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Forbes | How Health Care is Evolving to Combat Labor Shortages

With the health care workforce crisis in full swing, the industry requires more agile and innovative solutions if it hopes to forge a sustainable path forward. Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien.


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Is the U.S. Health System Status Quo Sustainable?

As hospitals and health systems continue to address dynamic market, workforce, and operational challenges, ensuring financial sustainability is necessary. This can be found in the orchestrated confluence of strategically aligned and rationalized service portfolios, performance metric and incentive alignment, clinical workforce design, and performance optimization.


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INFOGRAPHIC | APP Workforce Insights: Hematology Oncology

Your APP workforce is critical. Optimize your hematology oncology team with specialty-specific insight into work effort, billing practices, and more.


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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR | Struggling to recruit and retain your nursing workforce?

How is your organization addressing ongoing nursing shortages? Join our recent webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association to learn about developing a more holistic approach to recruitment and retention.


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Optimize span of control to help reduce the cost of labor

Is your organization struggling with evolving staffing models, redundant management layers, or job levels that are not clearly defined? Utilizing data-driven insight from our Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey, SullivanCotter can help you organization to optimize span of control and align divergent staffing models.


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How Dayton Children’s Hospital Transformed Its Approach to Clinical Workforce Planning

Dayton Children's Hospital recently partnered with SullivanCotter to conduct a comprehensive Provider Needs Assessment. In this case study, we highlight how organizations can utilize clinical supply and demand data to develop a well-informed 'master plan' for recruitment and hiring decisions.


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FLSA: Increase in Salary Threshold for Exemption Status

The US Department of Labor recently announced that the salary threshold for exemption status will increase to $1,128/week. While the proposed ruling is not yet final, enactment is likely. As a result, organizations should start considering the impact of the rule and how to address it.


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Succession Planning and the Role of a Dynamic Provider Needs Assessment

Health care organizations are under pressure to ensure proper staffing and continuity of care to support the communities they serve. In addition to determining the right number and type of clinicians, organizations must also monitor potential retirements and reductions in clinical productivity levels to help inform succession planning needs.


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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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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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Reevaluating Health Care Executive Compensation to Support a Diversified Business Strategy

Discover the essential role that tailored compensation strategies play in the growth and success of diversified health care organizations. Understand the nuances required to incentivize, recruit, and retain leaders in this increasingly competitive sector.


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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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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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