Crowded EDs, delayed discharges, clinician shortages and rising financial pressure are squeezing health systems from every direction. For years the answer was to add capacity. In most markets, that is no longer realistic.
This panel brings together executives from Vituity, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Houston Methodist, City of Hope and Hospital Sisters Health System to discuss a smarter path: redesigning care delivery across the continuum — emergency departments, hospital medicine, ambulatory follow-up, behavioral health, virtual care and community partnerships.
The conversation moves past dashboards to the operational, clinical and workforce alignment that actually moves patients through a system. Leaders will share where flow breaks down, what separates real improvement from cosmetic fixes and how to design care models around the workforce they actually have.
Learnings include:
- Why access is now an enterprise strategy, not a department problem
- How to align physician groups, nursing, case management and post-acute partners around shared throughput goals
- Site-of-care strategies — observation, telehealth, behavioral health pathways — that keep avoidable volume out of constrained settings
- Where the handoffs between settings turn strategy into a readmission, and how leaders close those gaps
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