Edge Perspectives

There is a “changing of the guard” happening across the health care industry right now as many hospital and health system CEOs are retiring, making way for a new generation of health care leaders to take over. Thus, on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we chatted with Dr John Brumstead, President/CEO of University of Vermont Health Network (UVM), who is retiring in September of this year. Dr Brumsted not only provides advice for future health care leaders and those hospitals/health systems seeking them, but also discusses guiding principles that made UVM successful, as well as the future of academic medical centers.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

With the release of our Sg2 Impact of Change® Forecast in May, our service line landscape webinars in full swing and our market-specific forecasts coming soon, Sg2 Perspectives invited Sg2’s Director Josh Aaker, PhD, Associate Principal Cory Jones and Senior Director Katherine Zentner to dive into what’s being forecasted for the cancer, cardiovascular, neurosciences, orthopedics and spine service lines. Josh, Cory and Kate discuss shifts in sites of care, innovations in technology and therapeutics, team-based care, and the consequences of delayed care during the height of the pandemic as well as a possible economic recession.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Director and digital health expert Andrew Rebhan to expand on a briefing on digital health organizational structures we released earlier this year. Andrew digs into the different stages of digital health maturity—early, evolving and advanced—and the key components and considerations of each, as well as what success looks like in terms of scalability and accessibility efforts.

Sg2 members can register to learn more about the digital health landscape during our digital health update webinar on August 17 here.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 helped care providers work collaboratively, along with insights on challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces in terms of health care and care access in a rural setting.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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, guest speakers and panelists will be focusing on, including evolving the strategic planning process and a new formula for growth, as well as topics like workforce, digital health, and care at home.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 health care industry.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 supply chain and other teams across health care organizations can partner to combat supply chain disruption, as well as the impact of supply chain disruption coupled with a potential economic recession.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 in the future.

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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, CommonSpirit Health, and Morehouse School of Medicine to bring more physicians of color to the communities of color that CommonSpirit Health serves across the country, with CHI Memorial in Chattanooga being the first hospital to welcome Morehouse School of Medicine students.

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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-service vs the value-based care component of private equity, and three things that health care leadership should do to prepare for and respond to private equity in their markets.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.