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Organizational Complexity is Rising—and the Pressure is Coming From All Sides
Labor shortages, care delivery transformation, quality expectations, financial sustainability pressures, and workforce culture priorities are converging. Leaders need an integrated, strategic approach to workforce planning to navigate what’s ahead.
Partnering with SullivanCotter
Aligning workforce strategy with organizational performance
SullivanCotter brings decades of specialized workforce insight and deep benchmarking expertise to help hospitals and health systems turn data into actionable strategy.
Through proprietary compensation and performance datasets, advanced analytics, and independent advisory guidance, we support leaders in making well-informed decisions regarding total rewards, performance incentives, governance structures, workforce planning and optimization, and more—ensuring strategies are aligned to meet our clients’ most pressing organizational objectives.
Explore the comprehensive, 360-degree perspective we bring to health care workforce compensation and performance.
How We Help
With decades of workforce intelligence and the depth of Workforce Insights360™, SullivanCotter partners with clients to help align talent strategies with clinical and enterprise goals, enable sustainable improvements in performance and outcomes, and translate workforce benchmarks into actionable strategy.
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 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.
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 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.
Performance Analytics & Advisory Services
Develop incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.
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.
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
Maximizing Value-Based Reimbursement
Client
Private, not-for-profit health system with revenue of $3B
Strategic Focus
Improving value-based reimbursement
Challenge
Physician compensation plan incentives were not effectively aligned with payer P4P incentives.
How did a SullivanCotter client redesign physician compensation by specialty to improve outcomes, enhance cost efficiency, and strengthen reporting discipline? Read the case study to see the strategy, structure, and results.
Read the Case Story
Featured Surveys
SullivanCotter’s market-leading surveys provide data-driven intelligence and actionable insights to help hospitals and health systems confidently manage their total rewards strategy across all segments of the health care workforce.
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.
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
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
Learn MoreLet’s Architect Your Solution
Ready to dig deeper into the drivers of overall hospital or health system workforce performance and costs? SullivanCotter is here to partner on your journey to new productivity.
