Edge Perspectives

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 segmenting this population, and provides examples of health systems—and others—with programs that are excelling in this space.

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.

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’Connor, FACHE, cover the exchange’s second session, which focused on the strategic planning process itself, including the incorporation of data, navigating systemness and leadership transitions, and care access improvement.

Check out Sg2 Strategy Exchange Debrief: The Nuts and Bolts of Health System Strategic Planning for the first Sg2 Perspectives episode on the Sg2 Strategy Exchange.

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, 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 learned, as well as larger issues in the behavioral health space such as care access and workforce challenges.

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.

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 factors impacting demand over the next 3, 5, and 10 years. 

Webinar

Executive Briefing

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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 and take stock of your strategic imperatives first, then prioritize those strategies and see where care at home fits.)

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.

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 (eg, workforce, physician alignment, health equity, growth and service distribution), but also how their approaches and strategies may differ depending on their local 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.

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 priorities and initiatives this year. Karl and Jeff cover not only how LSI partners can assist health systems with workforce challenges and optimizing operations, outcomes, and finances, but also how they can provide expertise on consumer and supply chain spend.

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, 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 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, 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 challenges and leveraging digital strategies, and dives into specific examples of the organization’s approaches to addressing health equity, consumerism and virtual visits, and recruitment, retention and redesigning its workforce.

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, 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 challenges with operational efficiencies; how behavioral health leaders can utilize market demographics, demand and growth data to make the dollars work; and how organizations can think outside the box to change their behavioral health care delivery models.

Make sure to listen to Sg2 Perspectives episode 110, If You Build It They Will Come: Behavioral Health Strategy Across the Care Continuum, to learn more about creating behavioral health capacity!

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.