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8:00 am Registration & Networking
8:45 am Chair’s Welcome, Opening Remarks & Connection Before Content
Flexing Your People Strategies to Meet the Evolving Needs of Your Caregivers
9:00 am Discover: How Baptist Memorial Health Care is Rethinking How to Support its Employees to Take Control of Their Own Health
- How to think differently and move away from traditional ‘check box’ wellbeing programs
- How to transform participation rates in wellbeing programs to enable you to support a healthier, more engaged workforce while also curtailing costs
- How Baptist Memorial Health Care’s BestHealth program has prioritized the wellbeing of 23,000 employees, reduced hospital admissions, avoided new onset of chronic conditions, and reduced overall costs of their self-insured health plan
9:20 am Discover: How Adventist HealthCare Transformed its Approach to Taking Care of the Caregiver to Achieve a 98% Return to Work Rate
- Rethinking how we structure our employee health department to ensure its fit for purpose in 2026 and beyond
- Taking new approaches to supporting team members during periods of uncertainty and disruption at both an individual and organizational level
- How Adventist HealthCare changed the way it responds to the health of its team members to provide more support, enhance return to work rates to almost 100%, and drive retention and performance at the bedside
9:40 am Develop: How Can Rethinking the Way We Take Care of Our Caregivers in 2026 Drive Engagement?
Join Nicole, Nancy and Lia for a dynamic Q&A exploring how two large scale health systems are embedding new ways of thinking into how they support their workforces. This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case studies they’ve just shared.
10:00 am Action: From Insight to Action: How Are You Now Going to Change the Way You Support Your Caregivers?
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context. Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
10:20 am Speed Networking & Refreshments
Transforming How You Fill Your Most in Demand Clinical Positions
11:10 am Discover: How Adventist HealthCare Re-Imagined Clinical Talent Pipelines to Operate at Full Capacity & Reach a 0% Contingent Workforce
- Rethinking how we identify and develop high potential internal and external talent for our most in-demand clinical positions
- Partnering and collaborating with different departments across a health system to develop new clinical career ladders and enhance retention
- How Adventist HealthCare took a new approach to its clinical talent pipelines to reduce turnover and reach its goal of being fully staffed by the end of 2025
11:30 am Discover: How UAB Medicine Has Broken Away from Traditional Workforce Planning to Eradicate the Need for a Contingent Workforce, Reduce Turnover, & Make Significant Cost Savings
- What new process improvement methodologies can we apply to traditional HR processes to transform the impact we have on our hospitals and systems?
- The new approach to workforce planning which will enable you to boost engagement and retention, and eradicate the need for contingent workforces
- How UAB Medicine modified a traditional workforce planning methodology for its radiology and surgical nursing populations to reduce turnover by 50% and make $1million in cost savings
11:50 am Develop: How Can Rethinking Our Approach to Clinical Talent Pipelines Help Us Build the Healthcare Workforce of Tomorrow Faster?
Join a live Q&A exploring how Adventist Healthcare and UAB Medicine is identifying high potential talent for its most in demand positions.
This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case study you’ve just heard.
12:10 pm Action: What Are You Now Going to Do to Transform the Outcome of Your Talent Pipeline Objectives?
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the talent pipeline initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context.
Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
12:30 pm Lunch & Learn: Evolving the Role & Transforming the Impact of the Healthcare CHRO
Designed by CHROs for CHROs, this intimate networking session will enable you to engage in an informal panel discussion with four of your peers – who will all be sharing how they are evolving their people strategy to be fit for the new healthcare operating reality.
*By Invite Only – Sit Down Lunch Included
Break Away from Traditional Recruitment Processes to Drive Efficiencies & Find Better Talent Faster
1:30 pm Discover: How Fast Pace Health is Leveraging AI to Turn the Recruiting Process on its Head Without Compromising the Human Element of the Candidate Experience
- How can we see AI as an opportunity to give more time back to our operating leaders so they can focus on our patients?
- Rethinking how to leverage AI to create efficiencies without taking away the human aspect of the recruitment process
- How Fast Pace Health is leveraging AI for its clinical roles to enable it to better understand the technical skillset of its candidates and use that data to build dedicated and consistent training for its new hires
1:50 pm Discover: How Baylor Scott & White’s New Approach to Interviewing Became its Band Aid for a Worsening Healthcare Talent Shortage
- What traditional thinking do we need to challenge around the competencies we look for in our candidates?
- Rethinking the value of hiring for culture over skills, and the impact it will have on the care our providers give to our patients as well as each other
- Uncover the success behind Baylor Scott & White’s strategy of prioritizing cultural expectations in the hiring process for its newest facility, and how its measuring the impact on first year turnover and time to fill as it expands to existing facilities
2:10 pm Develop: How Can Optimizing Traditional Talent Acquisition Strategies Enable Us to Deliver Better Talent Faster to Our Hospitals?
Join a live Q&A exploring how FastPace Health and Baylor Scott & White Health is turning traditional recruitment processes on their heads.
This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case studies you’ve just heard.
2:30 pm Action: What Changes Are You Now Going to Make to Enhance How You Find & Attract High-Quality Healthcare Talent to Your Organization?
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the talent acquisition optimization initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context.
Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
2:50 pm Networking & Refreshments
Investing in the Intersection of the Personal & Professional Lives of Your Team Members
3:20 pm Discover: How OSF HealthCare’s Investment in the Personal & Professional Lives of its Team Members Members to Boost Engagement Has Transformed Development, Engagement & Retention
- What needs to change about how we support our employees in all aspects of their lives in and outside the walls of our hospitals?
- Data and business driven approaches to providing the funded education and care programs that will transform how you demonstrate the value of investing in your people to your stakeholders
- How OSF HealthCare’s investment in the professional and personal development of its workforce provided genuine opportunity to those who needed it most, and led to a 200% ROI and a development-centric engagement score in the 93rd percentile
3:40 pm Discover: Rethinking How We Take Care of Our Caregivers to Provide More Flexibility & Enable a Better Balance of Personal & Professional Lives
- What traditional thinking needs challenging the most around how we support both the professional and personal lives of our team members?
- Re-imagining how benefit platforms can enable you to provide the flexibility required by caregivers at the times they need it the most
- Uncover how Cone Health’s approach to designing and implementing benefits transformed utilization and engagement across its workforce
4:00 pm Discover: How UNC Health’s Team-Mate Driven Approach to Culture Change is Enabling it to Make Cultural Shifts More Accessible, Practical & Actionable
- What do we need to do differently to ensure that our cultural transformation work is built entirely around team-mate language and ideas, while also getting leader buy-in?
- Rethinking how we build genuine culture champions who will make change more accessible and practical for both patient facing and non-patient facing team members
- Uncover how UNC Health has built 400 culture champions to enable it to reinvigorate and strengthen its culture across multiple hospitals and sites with cultural shifts which are breaking down barriers for team members to feel recognized and build connection
4:20 pm Develop: How Do We Get More Innovative in the Way Build Human-Centric HR Strategies During Periods of Uncertainty & Change?
Join a live Q&A exploring how UNC Health, Adventist Healthcare and UNC Health are rethinking the way they build HR strategies which have been designed with team members at the forefront.
This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case studies you’ve just heard.
4:40 pm Action: How Are You Now Going to Change the Way You Invest in Human-Centric People Strategies That Will Enable You to Support Both the Professional & Personal Lives of Your People?
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the culture and care initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context.
Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair