The most useful resources for healthcare executives right now tend to share one trait: they come from leaders who’ve already done the work and can speak to the specifics. Not the framework or the guiding principle, but the financial model that got board approval, the governance change that actually held, the program that scaled past the first cohort.
This week’s five Becker’s Healthcare resources lean into that level of detail. Spanning workforce strategy, OR operations and behavioral health access, each features executives walking through what their teams did inside their own organizations and what it took to make the change stick.
1. Bon Secours Mercy’s playbook for upgrading workforce operations
Many health systems still run open-shift incentives through spreadsheets and one-off decisions. This whitepaper shows how Bon Secours Mercy Health moved past that model with dynamic incentive pricing, a structured PRN tiers program that increased pre-scheduled hours 25% during a holiday period and forecasting tools that gave leaders sharper visibility into staffing needs across the enterprise.
Essential reading for CHROs, CFOs and workforce leaders focused on reducing reliance on premium labor and strengthening internal staffing capacity.
2. How 2 rural systems found their next nurses already on the payroll
Persistent vacancies and rising contract labor costs have led some health systems to stop competing for a shrinking talent pool and instead build nursing pipelines from within.
In this webinar, leaders from Great Plains Health and Sierra View Medical Center share how they moved from idea to launch, including the board-level framing, CFO-ready financial model and CNO and CHRO design choices that determined whether the program took root.
Recommended for CEOs, CNOs, CHROs and CFOs evaluating in-house workforce development as an alternative to traditional nurse recruitment.
3. The OR fixes working at Cone Health, Loma Linda University Health + WakeMed
Underused blocks, late starts and disruptive add-ons are a familiar pattern across most ORs, but only a few hospitals have managed to durably change it.
In this on-demand session, physician executives from Cone Health, Loma Linda University Health and WakeMed get specific about the governance, technology and change management decisions that moved perioperative performance forward inside their organizations.
Worth watching for surgical service line leaders, COOs and CMOs focused on block utilization, throughput and physician-led OR governance.
4. How Texas Health and others are reenvisioning behavioral health care
Demand for behavioral health services keeps climbing, but workforce capacity isn’t keeping pace and traditional episodic care models are leaving patients to fall through the gaps during critical transitions. This whitepaper looks at how Texas Health Resources, CenterPointe and others are building integrated, technology-enabled care models that connect behavioral and physical health and use telepsychiatry and measurement-based care to expand access.
Particularly relevant for CMOs, behavioral health service line leaders and population health executives building integrated care strategies.
5. Balancing burnout, demand and access: Insights from 4 leaders
Workforce constraints, shifting generational expectations and the steady expansion of AI into daily operations are forcing health systems to rethink staffing models in real time. In this upcoming webinar, executives from Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Ventura County Medical Center, Denver Health and San Juan Regional Medical Center share how they’re adapting workforce planning and operating models to meet demand without losing sight of patient care or culture.
A useful session for CEOs, COOs, CNOs and HR leaders looking for peer-tested approaches to staffing in environments where precision is no longer optional.
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