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 therapeuti...
Aug 17, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 130
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 d...
Aug 10, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 129
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 fa...
Aug 03, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 128
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 an...
Jul 27, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 127
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 r...
Jul 20, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 126
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 d...
Jul 13, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 125
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. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us...
Jul 06, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 124
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...
Jun 29, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 123
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 leader...
Jun 22, 2022•25 min•Ep. 122
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 excelli...
Jun 15, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 121
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 it...
Jun 08, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 120
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 chal...
Jun 01, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 119
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 We are always ex...
May 25, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 118
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 ...
May 18, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 117
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 t...
May 10, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 116
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 syste...
May 04, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 115
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 sg2perspectives@sg2.com , find us on Twitter a...
Apr 27, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 114
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 approach...
Apr 20, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 113
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, de...
Apr 13, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 112
At the beginning of this year, Sg2 held its first of four “strategy exchanges,” where Sg2 members’ strategic planning leaders came together to share their organizations’ strategic planning structures and processes. In this week’s episode, host Trevor DaRin and Sg2’s Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, and Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, provide a debrief on what was discussed during that first session—from how strategy roles and approaches have evolved over the past two years to strategic prioritiza...
Apr 06, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Access to behavioral health care has always been a challenge, but the need for services has grown due to the pandemic. Health system leaders are now taking a hard look at how they can more effectively create capacity across their care continuums. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Sg2 Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2’s lead for behavioral health services Senior Consultant Stephanie Snider, Senior Consulting Director Lisa McGuire, and Associate Principal Matt Fadel, who discuss how ...
Mar 30, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 110
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, System Chief Nurse Officer at Sutter Health Anna Kiger, DNP, DSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL, and Sg2 Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, join us to take a look at workforce retention and engagement through the lens of technology as an engagement tool—from both a health system and a national perspective. Anna shares how Sutter Health is thinking about artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for workforce enhancement and engagement, as well as how it’s encouraging frontline staf...
Mar 23, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Annually, Sg2’s parent company, Vizient, hosts a Health Care Executive Forum for C-suite leaders to connect and discuss the most significant issues facing the health care industry—and this year, participants were able to get together in-person! In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, two of Sg2’s attendees, Group SVP, Strategic Growth Solutions John Becker and Senior Principal Bill Woodson, join us to talk about their experiences at the forum, including overarching key themes (eg, workforce challenges,...
Mar 16, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Many of us in the health care space assumed we would be experiencing a reset in terms of more normal health system operations by this time; however, that’s not quite the case due to the cost side of the equation, driven by both labor and supply costs. Thus, in this episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Brian Esser and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to dive deep into one aspect of that equation: payment and policy. Brian and Bill discuss the impacts of the unwinding of the public he...
Mar 09, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 107
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re focusing on primary care, which is one of the most searched topics on Sg2’s client website. Host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, Principal Mark Larson and Manager, Health Equity, David Mena, who share our perspectives on primary care from multiple aspects—service line and clinical care, key consumer trends, and community health—while touching on related topics such as disrupters, health equity and chronic care. Sg2 members ...
Mar 02, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 106
The accelerating shift of procedures from the hospital to new sites of care like ambulatory surgery centers is a big topic Sg2 has been tackling for the past year. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Senior Principal Michael Strilesky break down how this shift has the potential to fundamentally reshape what we think about as the core business for acute care facilities, as well as how to effectively align with physician partners, and provide a sneak peek...
Feb 23, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 105
This week on Sg2 Perspectives we’re turning our attention to small community hospitals that are committed to independence. Sg2 just published an updated version of our Remaining Independent report that outlines considerations for these hospitals, and today, podcast host Senior Director Trevor DaRin and Sg2 Principal Jeff Moser share five big areas to focus on—workforce, local consumerism, local management expertise, care continuum infrastructure and financial stability—and how Sg2 is using this ...
Feb 16, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 104
As hospitals and health systems continue to find ways to achieve sustainable growth in the landscape of accelerating changes, keeping an eye on cost is essential. Cost challenges are not new, but they may need to be approached a bit differently than they have in the past. This week, Sg2 Perspectives host Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Principals Mark Larson and Jeff Moser, who discuss today’s cost reduction strategies, how organizations can infuse strategy into operational planning,...
Feb 09, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 103
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, Sg2 Principal, and Sg2 Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss Vizient’s Health Equity Strategy Accelerator, a rapid-cycle strategic course designed to help organizations understand their ambition to address health equity goals and their organizational readiness to address and implement health equity strategic initiatives. Jayme, Karyl and Eric detail not only how the Strategy Accelerator program helped organizations...
Feb 02, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Sg2 is composed of a future-focused group of strategists, and at the beginning of each year, we walk our members through our perspective on the top trends, issues, and opportunities for hospitals and health systems for the coming year in our Year Ahead webinar. In this episode, Sg2’s Associate Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, Senior Advisor Steve Jenkins, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to talk about the health care landscape for 2022 and areas of strategic focus for many organizati...
Jan 26, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 101
