June 1, 2026

Whitepaper: Right Care, Right Place: How Coordinated Urgent Care Delivery Reduced ED Respiratory Volume by 24%

WellStreet Urgent Care’s national consumer research found that nearly three out of four ED visitors knew before they walked in that they didn’t need emergency care. This report examines how WellStreet and a health system partner turned that insight into action – building a coordinated respiratory season strategy across ED, urgent care, and primary care that improved outcomes in every setting.

Over three years, the network scaled from 10 to 27 urgent care locations. ED flu visits dropped 24%. Left-without-being-seen rates fell from 2.61% to 1.78%. And patient satisfaction improved across every care setting.

Learnings include:

• The summer pre-planning move that prevented a December crisis,
• How coordinated urgent care delivery reduced lower acuity ED visits by 24% while improving ED Likelihood to Recommend from 65% to 68.5%,
• Why patient satisfaction and throughput improved simultaneously across ED, urgent care, and primary care, and
• How urgent care became the system’s highest volume front door for new patient acquisition.

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May 28, 2026

Whitepaper: From ED Overflow to Orchestrated Care: What’s Working in Behavioral Health

Walk into almost any hospital ED today and behavioral health patients are waiting – sometimes for days. Inpatient units are holding patients with nowhere to safely discharge to. Outpatient referrals go unmet. And more than one-third of Americans live in areas with behavioral health workforce shortages, making the usual fixes harder to execute.

A different operating model is taking shape. Health system leaders on a recent Becker’s Healthcare advisory call described a coordinated approach that orchestrates behavioral healthcare across Eds, primary care, outpatient services, community partners and the EHR.

Early results are tangible:

• A Southern integrated health system’s ED bridge with peer recovery specialists reports up to 85% first-visit outpatient follow-up after discharge.
• A Midwestern academic system spanning 21 hospitals and more than 50 health centers invests roughly $1,000 per patient annually in intensive case management and reports about $13,000 in savings per patient.
• A state-governed Midwest system expanded telehealth behavioral health assessments from six hospitals to 26 locations, with inpatient volumes declining.
• A Midwest health system partnered with about 55 community pediatricians on a structured youth suicide prevention program.

This whitepaper captures the frameworks, staffing models and technology decisions behind those outcomes – written for leaders actively redesigning how their organizations deliver behavioral healthcare.

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May 28, 2026

Beyond Hiring: How 3 Health Systems are Rebuilding the Care Workforce

Over the next five to 10 years, the U.S. will face a shortage of 300,000 physicians and nurses. At the same time, nearly 80% of older adults are managing multiple chronic conditions.

Recruiting alone will not solve this. Leading organizations are shifting strategy – investing in workforce development, productivity technology and retention-first benefits to stabilize operations and reduce long-term labor costs.

UAB Medicine reduced turnover by 32% and cut reliance on travelers in half by investing in structured career development and retirement benefits. Johns Hopkins Medicine used AI documentation tools to reclaim clinician time without adding staff. Futuro Health built local training pipelines to credential 2,000 allied health workers, without adding debt.

This whitepaper examines how these organizations are:

• Building internal career pathways that lower vacancy rates,
• Using AI to increase productivity without increasing burnout, and
• Leveraging benefits strategies to strengthen long-term retention.

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May 27, 2026

Case Study: How This Hospital Kept Neurology Care Local After Losing 2 Specialists Overnight

When two long-standing neurologists scaled back their hospital involvement, Nash UNC Health Care faced an immediate gap in specialty coverage. Recruitment efforts came up short. Patient transfers to higher levels of care climbed. Care teams absorbed the strain.

Leadership at the 280-bed hospital in Rocky Mount, N.C., an affiliate of UNC Health, needed a way to restore neurology access without rebuilding the program from scratch.

This case study details how Nash UNC integrated telemedicine directly into its existing clinical workflows and stabilized specialty access across the system.

Learn how the hospital:

• Reduced patient transfers more than 60%,
• Made neurology consults available within one hour,
• Retained more than $500K in annual revenue, based on national reimbursement averages, and
• Eased after-hours burden for on-site specialists.

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May 27, 2026

Rebuilding Staffing, Surgery & Behavioral Health: 5 Resources for Healthcare Leaders This Week

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.

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May 27, 2026

Whitepaper: The Hidden Cost of the Status Quo: Why Healthcare Safety is the Defining Strategic Imperative for 2026

When clinicians worry about their safety, the impact reaches far beyond a single incident. Confidence drops, reporting suffers, turnover rises and operational strain spreads across the organization.

This healthcare safety report shows why best-in-class hospitals are treating safety as a strategic priority. It connects worker safety to workforce retention, trust and operational performance, giving leaders a clearer view of what is driving risk and what can improve outcomes.

The findings are drawn from an online survey of 1,014 healthcare employees across clinical, operational and executive roles. The results are hard to ignore – Nearly 85% of survey respondents have personally experienced a safety incident during their careers. More than 20% (1 in 5) have been involved in incidents that escalated to physical violence, and 76% of healthcare workers consider personal safety a daily concern.

One system that adopted connected safety technology saw violent incidents decline by 30% within six months, while incident reporting increased by 50%.

For leaders focused on sustaining care delivery, this report offers a practical look at how proactive safety programs can support both staff protection and organizational performance.

Download the report to learn:

• How safety affects retention, trust and operational resilience,
• What front-line trends reveal about workplace violence today,
• Where proactive safety programs are driving measurable change, and
• Why reporting culture matters for long-term improvement.

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May 19, 2026

Whitepaper: New Research on Digital Maturity: Where Health Systems Stand – and What to do Next

Most health system leaders agree digital health is essential to their care delivery strategy. Far fewer have figured out how to make it deliver at scale.

New research from Xealth and Sage Growth Partners maps the current state of digital maturity across U.S. health systems – and the findings are telling. Only 10% of organizations have reached full digital maturity. Most are stuck in the middle: deploying tools, seeing isolated wins, but struggling to scale results across the enterprise.

The reasons are consistent: fragmented integrations, inconsistent governance and measurement frameworks that were never built for enterprise scale. This report identifies three distinct digital maturity personas and outlines a clear path forward for each.

Inside you’ll learn:

• Why so few digital solutions reach systemwide deployment at most organizations,
• How fragmentation limits ROI, complicates governance and slows AI adoption,
• What separates organizations that scale digital programs from those that stall, and
• How orchestration reduces clinician burden and connects digital tools to clinical workflows.

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May 19, 2026

Case Study: How This Hospital Kept Neurology Care Local After Losing 2 Specialists Overnight

When two long-standing neurologists scaled back their hospital involvement, Nash UNC Health Care faced an immediate gap in specialty coverage. Recruitment efforts came up short. Patient transfers to higher levels of care climbed. Care teams absorbed the strain.

Leadership at the 280-bed hospital in Rocky Mount, N.C., an affiliate of UNC Health needed a way to restore neurology access without rebuilding the program from scratch.

This case study details how Nash UNC integrated telemedicine directly into its existing clinical workflows and stabilized specialty access across the system.

Learn how the hospital:

• Reduced patient transfers more than 60%,
• Made neurology consults available within one hour,
• Retained more than $500K in annual revenue, based on national reimbursement averages, and
• Eased after-hours burden for on-site specialist.

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May 19, 2026

Whitepaper: A Comprehensive Guide to Backup Power for Hospitals

In healthcare, reliable power is non-negotiable.

As Rod Allen, system director of plant operations for Lee Memorial Health System, puts it: “Without power, nothing else in healthcare happens.” Yet aging infrastructure, growing energy demand and stringent accreditation standards increase the risk profile for hospitals nationwide.ealht Syst

From WellSpan York Hospital’s use of microgrids to improve redundancy to Reid Health’s installation of EPA Tier 4 Final Factory Certified diesel engines to optimize flexibility, health systems are rethinking how backup power supports patient safety and operational continuity.

This comprehensive guide examines how hospitals can move beyond minimum compliance to strengthen resilience and reduce single points of failure, ensuring optimal care and conditions even when the primary grid goes down.

Key learnings include:

• How different requirements shape hospital emergency power systems,
• Why redundancy and modular architectures reduce cascading failure risk, and
• How resilient power strategies support uninterrupted clinical operations during grid outages.

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