Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

In this episode, we are joined by David Stratton, Vice President of Payer Strategy & Managed Care Operations at Northern Light Health, to discuss his experience working on both the payer and provider side of healthcare, his focus on streamlining care to make it more accessible, and more.

In this episode, we are joined by regular guest Kristen McDermott Woodrum, Partner at McGuireWoods LLP. Here, she discusses key takeaways from the 2023 healthcare private equity and finance conference.

This episode features Holden Brooks, Partner at McGuireWoods LLP; Co-Chair, Marketing Committee, ABA Antitrust Law Section. Here, she discusses important antitrust compliance issues & trends in healthcare she is watching from an antitrust practice perspective.

This episode features Dr. Bruce Rogen, Chief Medical Officer at Cleveland Clinic Employee Health Plan & Chair of Cleveland Clinic Quality Alliance. Here, he discusses his background, the biggest issues he is following in healthcare, the clinic’s focus on social determinants of health, and more.Want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this? Apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at our upcoming Annual Meeting April 3-6, 2023 here. (https://events.beckershospitalreview.com/annual-meeting-2023/p/1)

This episode of "The Handoff" podcast features Dani Bowie, who speaks with Daniel Hudson, the Vice President of Nursing Administration and Operations for Jefferson Health. Daniel tells Dani about Jefferson Health's SEAL team, which stands for Service, Excellence, Advocacy, and Leadership. It's a team of flexible nurses who work across Jefferson's clinical enterprise, including its 18 hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.The SEAL team approach offers nurses the flexibility to move around and work in different environments while still having a home within the team — with great compensation. Daniel also shares details on Jefferson Health's upcoming virtual care pilot program, which will involve SEAL nurses as dual-licensed virtual nurses. The program aims to augment care delivery rather than replace it, and will focus on improving nursing care planning, patient education, and discharges, among other things. The organization is looking at various KPIs to measure the program's success, including documentation time, nurse and healthcare team retention, and patient experience.Daniel also shares his thoughts on flexible scheduling, and the varied needs of different nurses and how best to accommodate them.This episode is sponsored by Trusted Health (https://www.trustedhealth.com/).

In this episode Dr. Lance Owens, Cheif Medical Information Officer at Michigan Health-West and Joshua Wilda, MPA, CHIOEVP and Chief Digital Information OfficerUniversity of Michigan Health-West, discusses the importance of patient engagement technology that can flex to meet individual needs throughout the patient journey and offer a unified, personalized experience that advances equity, inclusion and care quality.This episode is sponsored by Nuance (https://www.nuance.com/index.html).

This episode features regular guest Molly Gamble, Vice President of Editorial at Becker’s Healthcare. Here, she discusses hospital CEO exits hitting a high in the start of 2023, Walmart Health to add 28 new clinics by 2024, and what Walmart Health will mean for rural health.

In this episode we are joined by Mary Grace Powers, Managing Director at BlueSky Synergy, to discuss the trends of contract labor, the role of technology in helping manage staffing gaps, the benefits of hiring contract labor workers and a lot more.This episode is sponsored by BlueSky Medical Staffing (https://www.whatisbluesky.com/healthcare-staffing-software-for-vendor-and-workforce-management).

In this episode we hear from Emily Warr, MSN, RN, Administrator at the Medical University of South Carolina for Telehealth, and Noel Khirsukhani, Chief Growth Officer at Andor Health. Tune in and learn how MUSC Health Center for Telehealth is working to create a patient-centric infrastructure to expand care across the academic medical center and across the southeast, shifting from episodic, fractured patient encounters to a cohesive wellness journey along the care continuum.This episode is sponsored by Andor Health (https://andorhealth.com/).

This episode features regular guest Laura Dyrda, Vice President & Editor in Chief at Becker's ASC Review and Becker’s Spine Review. Here, she discusses how different healthcare leaders are staying mission focused in tough economic times and how executives can use innovative machine learning to help ease workforce shortage burdens.