The ASHHRA Podcast

Luke Carignan and ASHHRA CEO Jeremy Sadlier open November 2026 with three stories that are really one: the gap between where healthcare thinks it is and where the data says it is. 🪑 Story 1: The CHRO Seat Is Being Rewritten Becker's has tracked at least 25 hospital and health system CHRO and chief people officer appointments in 2026, more than double the 11 it reported in all of 2025. Of the...

Luke Carignan and ASHHRA CEO Jeremy Sadlier close out October with three costs health systems already pay without naming them. Each one eats margin and morale, and each ends on a decision that sits with HR. 💵 Pay Compression Is a Fairness Problem First Nurse.org's 2026 salary survey of 3,758 nurses: 93% say pay is not keeping up with inflation and workload, and 23% say they are underpaid com...

Luke is on the road, so Bo sits down with ASHHRA Executive Director and CEO Jeremy Sadlier for a different kind of Weekly News Drop: the news is ASHHRA's own. Registration for ASHHRA27 is open, and the two of them walk through what the conference will feel like and how the ASHHRA Preferred Partner Program is built to lower what healthcare HR pays for everything it buys. 🤠 One Campus, Everybo...

Featuring Romy Newman, VP of Talent Ecosystem, CLASP Disclosure: CLASP is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Bo opens with a question from his Army years. What if every recruit paid for basic training up front and the Army just hoped they stayed? That is close to how the United States trains clinicians. Romy Newman co-founded Fairy Godboss, ran digital ad sales at the Wall Street Journal, and now le...

Featuring Jeff Battinus, VP of Talent Attraction and Selection, ChenMed, and Yaniv Shimoni, Co-Founder, Take2 Disclosure: Take2 is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Twenty-two years in healthcare recruiting, and Jeff Battinus says his career is changing in front of his face. He joins Bo with Take2 co-founder Yaniv Shimoni to separate real agentic AI from the version that is a sticker on an old proc...

Bo and Jeremy are back from the ASHHRA Executive Summit in Savannah, Luke held the fort, and the three of them land on one theme: the systems that win are not doing anything magical. They are deciding earlier than everyone else. 💊 The GLP-1 Decision You Cannot Keep Deferring One in eight American adults is on a GLP-1 right now, per KFF. IFEBP's June 2026 pulse survey puts employer coverage f...

Luke Carignan runs this one solo while Bo and Jeremy are in Savannah for the ASHHRA Executive Summit. One theme ties the week together: your move. Every story lands on a decision that sits in an HR office. 🩺 The Physician Succession Crisis Nobody Scheduled New research from MGMA, Jackson Physician Search and LocumTenens.com found 64% of rural administrators expect a physician to retire or cut bac...

Featuring Dominiece Hoelyfield , Lead Inclusion and Culture Consultant, Nationwide Children's Hospital Bo opens with a question worth sitting with. The last time you walked into your workplace, did you feel like you belonged? Not tolerated, not accommodated, not represented in the right percentage on a slide. Dominiece Hoelyfield has spent a decade and a half on the difference, and she answer...

Luke Carignan runs this one solo and flips the format. No crisis, no warnings. Three healthcare workforce stories that went right, and three things healthcare HR can act on because of them. 🩺 Ambient AI Moved Burnout in 30 Days Yale researchers put an ambient AI scribe in front of 263 clinicians across six health systems. Burnout fell from 51.9% to 38.8% in a month. Cognitive load dropped, after-...

Featuring Noe Arceo , Vice President of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Development, OhioHealth Noe Arceo calls the team he joined at OhioHealth a good team with good bones. His first year went into the parts of the hiring process they could control, and time to fill came down 42%. The method behind it fits on a single sheet of paper he has carried since his Baylor Scott & White days. 🎯 Th...

Eight hundred hospitals, nursing homes, maternal wards, and psychiatric centers have already closed, cut services, or landed at risk. Not projected. Already happened. Three stories this week, and every one of them lands on an HR desk. 🤖 NEJM: AI Grows the Clinical Workforce Dhruv Khullar of Weill Cornell Medicine published the counter-argument on September 12. Cheaper care means more care, not le...

Featuring Kellie Woods, Manager of Talent Acquisition, Franciscan Health Most people running talent acquisition at a large health system started at a large health system. Kellie Woods didn't. She spent years at two independent community hospitals in Northwest Indiana, watched both get absorbed, and now covers nursing, physician practices, home health and hospice across eleven hospitals with a...

Featuring Ivy Singley, Director of Employment Services and Workforce Development, Infirmary Health Replacing one bedside nurse ran just over $61,000 last year. Every single percentage point of RN turnover swings the average hospital's bottom line by roughly $290,000 a year. Treating that as a pipeline problem misses what happens inside the walls every day, and Ivy Singley has spent almost 30...

ChatGPT Is Inside Epic, 40 Mergers in Six Months, and 92% Bracing for Strain Three stories, one direction. Technology is accelerating, consolidation is accelerating, and the people running health systems have stopped waiting to see how it shakes out. 🤖  ChatGPT Now Reads Epic Charts: 325 Million Patient Records and What Healthcare HR Does Next  On September 1, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Healthca...

70% of Engagement Comes Down to One Thing. Your Boss. Featuring Burl Stamp , FACHE, President, Stamp and Chase | Author, Becoming a Better Boss Before we get started, sit with this number: 70%. That is how much of employee engagement is determined not by your comp structure, your benefits package, or your culture initiative. It comes down to one thing. The person they report to. Bo sits down with...

Why Healthcare HR Tech Fails: It's Never the Software Featuring Stephanie Wright, Founder, Wright Talent Advisory Only 43% of HR professionals say their HR technology is effective. Fewer than half. These are organizations that ran vendor selection, sat through demos, built a business case, got budget approved, signed a contract, and went live. Then more than half of them looked at what they b...

Hospital M&A Is Up 33%, CommonSpirit Has 250 AI Tools Running & UHS Just Bought a Mental Health App August 31st, 2026. Bo Brabo and Luke Carignan. Three stories, one theme: health systems are making big, deliberate moves. Merging before they have to, deploying AI at scale, and buying digital companies to own the front door to care. 🤝 The Consolidation Wave and Why This Time It's Diff...

96% of Applicants Fall Into the Abyss. Take2 AI Is Pulling Them Back Out. Featuring Yaniv Shimoni , Co-Founder, Take2 AI | ASHHRA Podcast Sponsor The average hospital has 43 unfilled nursing positions. It takes up to 102 days to recruit an experienced RN. And your recruiting team is talking to three to four percent of the people who apply. The other 96%? They fall into the abyss. Yaniv Shimoni bui...

Four Years Left: The 2030 Staffing Cliff, APRN Expansion & Why 76% of Leaders Can't Execute August 24th, 2026. Bo Brabo, Luke Carignan, and ASHHRA Executive Director Jeremy Sadlier. Four years to 2030. Three stories. One question underneath all of them: what are you actually doing about it? 📉 The Shortage Isn't Leaving — Here's the Timeline AMN Healthcare's white paper lay...

Leadership Is a Verb, Not a Title — and New Hope Treatment Centers Is Proving It Featuring Tabitha Bramblett , Chief People Officer, New Hope Treatment Centers Most organizations promote their best performer into a leadership role and then wonder why everything falls apart. Tabitha decided to build the program that changes that — and she did it at a 500-person behavioral health organization servin...

Nurses Tripled AI Use Without You, 170K New Grads Can't Fix 40% Turnover & CHROs Think They've Won August 17th, 2026. All three: Bo Brabo, Luke Carignan, and ASHHRA Executive Director Jeremy Sadlier — plus a first for the Monday News Drop: a special field correspondent. Three stories, one thread: is your workforce moving faster than your strategy? 🚨 Field Report: Candidate Fraud Is...

You Can't Hire Your Way Out of This — St. Elizabeth Healthcare Proves It Featuring Brittany Sorrell, Director of Workforce Development, St. Elizabeth Healthcare 700,000 open healthcare jobs every month. 306,000 unemployed healthcare workers to fill them. The math does not work. Brittany Sorrell has spent three years building the model that actually does — and it starts in high school. Luke si...

Gen Z Nurses Need 2.5x More Manager Contact, 69% Lack Fraud Controls & New Hires Decide in 5 Days August 10th, 2026. Bo is back. All three: Bo Brabo, Luke Carignan, and ASHHRA Executive Director Jeremy Sadlier. Three stories, one thread — the distance between the workforce you have and the strategy you're running. 👩‍⚕️ Gen Z Is 30% of Your Nursing Workforce — Your Manager Model Wasn&apos...

You've Been Treating Burnout. It's Actually Moral Injury. August 3rd, 2026. Luke Carignan is flying solo, and he has something to say. Three stories. One thread. An uncomfortable conclusion the research is forcing. 🩺 It's Not Burnout. It's Moral Injury. That Changes Everything. Connect RN's "Burnout in 2026 Looks Different" draws a distinction that reframes the...

41% of Nurses Stay for One Reason: They Can't Afford to Leave July 27th, 2026. Luke Carignan and ASHHRA Executive Director Jeremy Sadlier open with a number that is hard to sit with — and spend the rest of the episode on the organizations doing something about it. 🩺 Nurses Are Staying. But They're Not Okay. The Nurse.org 2026 State of Nursing Survey (2,000 nurses nationwide): job satisf...