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At Becker's 16th Annual Meeting, the CEOs running Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health, Banner Health, Penn Medicine, Dartmouth Health, Inova, Boston Children's Hospital and Ascension told each other what they're building in its place. This briefing captures five themes from those conversations — the shift from cost-cutting to enterprise value creation, AI as a people-and-process challenge, the re-credentialed C-suite, ambulatory-first capital deployment, and workforce as the binding constraint on every other strategy. No macro takes. No vendor framing. 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