Edge Perspectives

Sg2’s very own Tori Richie, Director, and Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy, guide us through the Sg2 debut of the latest health care projections from our 10-year Impact of Change (IoC) national demand forecast.  You can also find links to our webinar and Executive Briefing on this topic below.  The conversation in this episode focused on the key...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principals Heidi Pandya, MSHA, and Jayme Zage, PhD, join us to discuss all things related to health care at home. Heidi and Jayme start with the current landscape and why health care organizations are evaluating care-at-home services, and then cover how organizations can get started with health-care-at-home programs and prioritize their options. (Hint: stand back...

A big theme for Sg2 this spring is how the health care industry is hitting reset, and in this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principals, Client Relations, Traci Bentley and Dave Murphy join us to share their knowledge of what’s top of mind for health system leaders all over the US right now. Traci and Dave not only dig into what health care organizations and academic medical centers are focusing on...

Sg2 does significant work with suppliers and other industry partners (which we call Life Sciences and Industry [LSI] ). This week, Sg2 Perspectives has invited Principal and General Manager Karl Karlsson, PhD, and Principal Jeff Moser, who lead our work in the LSI space, to talk about how LSI partners can adapt to become better strategic partners as many health systems hit reset with their priorit...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2 Consulting Principals Heidi Pandya, MSHA, and Melissa Threlkeld, FACHE, who share Sg2 members’ top concerns and challenges (eg, workforce, rising acuity, capacity constraints, growth) and how hospitals and health systems can move forward through strategic prioritization, partnerships and innovation.   We are always excited to get ide...

This week, Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Kathy Parrinello, Executive Vice President and COO from University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), who—in her over 20 years there—has expanded into other leadership roles across the medical center and in the community. In this episode, Kathy shares how URMC is “hitting reset” with its health care strategy, focusing on care access issues, workforce challenge...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we bring back Sg2’s lead for behavioral health services Senior Consultant Stephanie Snider, Senior Consulting Director Lisa McGuire and Associate Principal Matt Fadel, who join host Jayme Zage, PhD, to go deeper into strategic planning for behavioral health across the care continuum. Stephanie, Lisa and Matt focus on how health systems can address workforce challen...

At the beginning of this year, Sg2 held its first of four “strategy exchanges,” where Sg2 members’ strategic planning leaders came together to share their organizations’ strategic planning structures and processes. In this week’s episode, host Trevor DaRin and Sg2’s Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, and Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, provide a debrief on what was discussed during that first session...

Access to behavioral health care has always been a challenge, but the need for services has grown due to the pandemic. Health system leaders are now taking a hard look at how they can more effectively create capacity across their care continuums. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Sg2 Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2’s lead for behavioral health services Senior Consultant Stephanie S...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, System Chief Nurse Officer at Sutter Health Anna Kiger, DNP, DSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL, and Sg2 Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, join us to take a look at workforce retention and engagement through the lens of technology as an engagement tool—from both a health system and a national perspective. Anna shares how Sutter Health is thinking about artificial intelligence (AI...

Annually, Sg2’s parent company, Vizient, hosts a Health Care Executive Forum for C-suite leaders to connect and discuss the most significant issues facing the health care industry—and this year, participants were able to get together in-person! In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, two of Sg2’s attendees, Group SVP, Strategic Growth Solutions John Becker and Senior Principal Bill Woodson, join us to ta...

Many of us in the health care space assumed we would be experiencing a reset in terms of more normal health system operations by this time; however, that’s not quite the case due to the cost side of the equation, driven by both labor and supply costs. Thus, in this episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Brian Esser and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to dive deep into one aspect of tha...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re focusing on primary care, which is one of the most searched topics on Sg2’s client website. Host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, Principal Mark Larson and Manager, Health Equity, David Mena, who share our perspectives on primary care from multiple aspects—service line and clinical care, key consumer trends, and community heal...

The accelerating shift of procedures from the hospital to new sites of care like ambulatory surgery centers is a big topic Sg2 has been tackling for the past year. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Senior Principal Michael Strilesky break down how this shift has the potential to fundamentally reshape what we think about as the core business for acute ca...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we’re turning our attention to small community hospitals that are committed to independence. Sg2 just published an updated version of our Remaining Independent report that outlines considerations for these hospitals, and today, podcast host Senior Director Trevor DaRin and Sg2 Principal Jeff Moser share five big areas to focus on—workforce, local consumerism, local ma...

As hospitals and health systems continue to find ways to achieve sustainable growth in the landscape of accelerating changes, keeping an eye on cost is essential. Cost challenges are not new, but they may need to be approached a bit differently than they have in the past. This week, Sg2 Perspectives host Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Principals Mark Larson and Jeff Moser, who discuss...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, Sg2 Principal, and Sg2 Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss Vizient’s Health Equity Strategy Accelerator, a rapid-cycle strategic course designed to help organizations understand their ambition to address health equity goals and their organizational readiness to address and implement health equity strategic initiati...

Sg2 is composed of a future-focused group of strategists, and at the beginning of each year, we walk our members through our perspective on the top trends, issues, and opportunities for hospitals and health systems for the coming year in our Year Ahead webinar. In this episode, Sg2’s Associate Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, Senior Advisor Steve Jenkins, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join...

For the first time on Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome two members of Sg2’s Client Service Delivery team, Principal, Sg2 Client Relations, Alison Wishnick and Client Relations Director Katie Leo. In this episode, Alison and Katie talk to us about what they’re hearing from Sg2 member strategic planning and executive teams regarding their priorities for 2022, including a return to long-term strategic an...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we take you inside Sg2’s 2021 Children’s Hospital Group Affinity Meeting, providing audio from our Children’s Hospital Enterprise Member Panel. Facilitated by Sg2 Principal Rebecca Limestall and Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, guest panelists Ashlie Hilbun, EdD, MSW, CFRE, FACHE, from Arkansas Children’s Hospital;...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re focusing on health system boards: what they are focused on right now, as well as what they may be focused on in the future. Sg2 Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Principal Jeff Moser join us to discuss how board interactions have changed over the past two years; the current hot topics at board updates (eg, workforce, innovation, capital planning, growth);...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Director and podcast host Trevor DaRin, Associate Principal Brian Esser and Director Tori Richie dive into Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates, an analytic tool built by Sg2 to help our members not only understand what their market looks like from a payer enrollment perspective but also explore the local dynamics that might change those enrollment patterns in th...

Some of Sg2’s earliest members were academic medical centers (AMCs), so we have always made it a priority to engage with them and understand their challenges—which is what our Sg2 AMC Summit is all about. This week, Sg2 General Manager, AMCs, and National Vice President, Client Relations, Michael Humphrey and Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, join Sg2 Perspectives talk about the biggest takeawa...

Today on Sg2 Perspectives we’re all about ambulatory strategy, and we’re approaching it from two different angles. First, Sg2 Principal Brianna Motley and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss the Ambulatory Strategy Accelerator program led by Sg2’s parent company Vizient, which is a fast-paced, interactive program designed to not only help member organizations narrow down their ambulatory strategi...

Most health systems have been struggling with workforce issues for months, with the larger trends reverberating through contract labor and vice versa. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we are joined by VP of Operations Melanie Bell, MSN, RN, CENP, and SVP David Hermann from Vaya Workforce Solutions who share their insights on the current contract labor landscape, the successes and challenges of deplo...