Edge Perspectives

In episode 121 of Sg2 Perspectives, we covered health system growth opportunities in the LGBTQ+ community. Today, we are continuing that focus with Robert Kelly, MD, MPH, a family medicine physician at Exeter Health Resources affiliate Core Physicians, LLC, who operates a clinic that specializes in serving the LGBTQ+ population in New Hampshire. Dr Kelly shares how the program was formed and has h...

We at Sg2 are very excited that our annual Executive Summit conference is returning to an in-person event this year, taking place July 28 and 29 in Chicago, IL. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Principal Brianna Motley, Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to provide a sneak peek at what strategic issues from across the health care landscape our experts, gu...

Joan Moss, RN, MSN, was an instrumental part of Sg2 for 16 years, most recently serving as Managing Principal and CNO. She retired at the end of June, but before she left, she stopped by Sg2 Perspectives to reflect on her 40 plus years of health care experience, including past challenges and what we can learn from them and her thoughts on creative workforce solutions and what’s coming next for the...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, Senior Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy, and Vizient’s Simrit Sandhu, EVP, Strategic Transformation & Clinical Supply Solutions, join us to talk about health care supply chain and how demand for care services may be impacted by our current supply-constrained environment. Maddie and Simrit also discuss how su...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, President and CEO of Arkansas Health Network (AHN) Bob Sarkar joins us to share his view on how the clinically integrated network (CIN)—sponsored by CHI St Vincent CommonSpirit Health—is thinking about the current health care climate as a reset moment, discussing AHN’s goals, its success with shared savings and keeping physicians aligned, and what it hopes to achieve...

Health systems are making good on their renewed commitment to health equity, considering it a top priority. So, in this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin talks to CHI Memorial Manager, Community Benefits and Diversity, Nicole Brown, MPA, about the system’s health equity work. Nicole and Trevor focus particularly on the deliberate partnership between CHI Memorial’s parent system, CommonSpi...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Senior Principal and Physician Strategy Consulting Practice Lead Mike Strilesky and Principal David Petrel, JD, join us to dive into private equity in the physician practice landscape. Mike and David discuss the pain points that private equity entrants cause for health system leaders and how they are working with Sg2 members today in this space, the fee-for-s...

In honor of Pride Month, this week Sg2 Perspectives focuses on the opportunity for health systems to build primary care services for the LGBTQ+ community. Joining us is Sg2 Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, who leads our Medicine service line, as well as our Community Health practice. Justin discusses the strategy behind focusing on care for the LGBTQ+ community, the challenges around segmentin...

The Sg2 Strategy Exchange is a networking and shared learning opportunity for health system strategic planning leaders. Previously, in Sg2 Perspectives episode 111 , we provided a debrief of the exchange’s first session, which included strategy roles, strategic prioritization and scenario planning. In this episode, host Trevor DaRin and Sg2’s Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, and Principal Jennifer O’Co...

This week, Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Dr. Neha Gupta and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan from Rush University Medical Center, along with Sg2’s behavioral health lead Stephanie Snider, to discuss behavioral health integration and a collaborative care model that incorporates behavioral health into the primary care setting at Rush. Neha, Jonathan, and Stephanie dig into the model’s goals, outcomes and lessons lea...

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...