Through both our Clinical Connections and Market Moves webinar series, Medical Solutions brings together healthcare executives, clinical leaders, and industry experts for candid conversations about the realities shaping healthcare today and the practical strategies organizations are using to respond to industry change.
Below are several standout discussions exploring workforce retention, labor strategy, clinician wellbeing, compliance preparedness, and the future of care delivery.
Workforce Retention and Culture
Retention challenges rarely appear overnight, but build slowly through disengaged clinicians, leadership instability, burnout, and teams that no longer feel connected to the organization’s mission or future. These conversations explore how healthcare leaders are building environments where people want to stay, grow, and thrive.
WEBINAR: Boost First-Year Retention: Strategies That Work
The first year of a clinician’s career shapes their confidence, engagement, and long-term commitment with your organization (or determines if they start looking for the exit).
Leaders from Medical Solutions and Onvida Health share how intentional investment in career development, support systems, and succession planning is helping to improve retention outcomes for new graduate clinicians. The conversation offers a closer look at strategies to help new nurses feel confident, connected, and committed from day one.
Key Insights Include:
- Strategies helping organizations reduce first-year turnover
- Career development approaches that improve long-term engagement
- How succession planning strengthens workforce stability and leadership growth
Featured Speakers:
- Patti Artley, Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Solutions
- Deborah Aders, Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Officer, Onvida Health
WEBINAR: Leading with Purpose: Strategies for Building a Retention-Driven Culture
Strong workplace cultures are not built through mission statements alone, but are shaped by everyday leadership behaviors that influence how clinicians experience support, trust, accountability, and connection.
Rich Thompson, Chief Human Resources Officer at Medical Solutions, shares practical strategies for creating a retention-driven culture grounded in the “5 Cs” of Courage, Connection, Communication, Coaching, and Consistency. The discussion explores how leaders can strengthen engagement, build trust across teams, and create workplaces where clinicians feel empowered to grow and succeed.
Key Insights Include:
- Practical ways leaders can strengthen organizational culture
- Strategies for improving clinician retention and engagement
- Leadership approaches that create accountability and trust
Featured Speakers:
- Rich Thompson, Chief Human Resources Officer, Medical Solutions
- Natalie Red Eagle, Vice President of Clinical & Quality Services, Medical Solutions
WEBINAR: Workforce Wellness: Effective Approaches to Foster Wellbeing and Retention in Healthcare
Workforce wellbeing is directly connected to retention, team stability, and patient care outcomes. Patti Artley, Chief Nursing Officer at Medical Solutions, explores what it takes to build healthier, more sustainable work environments where clinicians can perform at their best. The conversation focuses on practical approaches to reducing burnout, supporting mental wellbeing, and helping healthcare professionals work at the top of their license while feeling valued and supported in their roles.
Key Insights Include:
- Why clinician wellbeing is directly tied to retention and workforce stability
- Strategies for reducing burnout across healthcare teams
- Approaches that help staff work at the top of their license while improving engagement
Featured Speaker:
- Patti Artley, Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Solutions
Financial Sustainability and Labor Strategy
Healthcare workforce conversations are becoming more strategic, data-driven, and operationally focused. Leaders are taking a broader view of labor costs and workforce planning, looking beyond short-term staffing decisions to better understand the long-term impact on productivity, patient access, financial performance, and workforce sustainability.
WEBINAR: Reframing Healthcare Labor Costs: What The Data Is Really Telling Us
Workforce decisions are being evaluated through a much wider lens than hourly rates alone. Forward-looking organizations are digging deeper into the operational realities tied to labor strategy, including onboarding costs, attrition, non-productive time, speed-to-fill, governance expectations, and workforce design.
This discussion reveals what the latest labor data is really telling us and how many are successfully reshaping workforce strategies to support stronger operational and financial outcomes.
Key Insights Include:
- Why total workforce cost matters more than visible hourly rates
- How time-to-fill impacts care delivery, productivity, and margin
- What modern workforce architecture looks like in practice
- Why transparency and governance are becoming critical in staffing partnerships
Featured Speakers:
- Erin MacKenzie, Vice President of Solution Engineering, Medical Solutions
- Holly Bass, Executive Director, National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO)
- Adam McDonald, Managing Director, KPMG
Healthcare Policy, Operations, and Future Planning
Healthcare organizations are preparing for a future shaped by policy changes, workforce shifts, operational transformation, and growing expectations around access, efficiency, and patient care. These conversations explore how leaders are responding to industry change while building workforce strategies designed for long-term stability and adaptability.
WEBINAR: The State of the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare landscape heading into 2026 is shifting quickly, bringing new questions around workforce planning, financial sustainability, access to care, and operational resilience.
Leaders from the Advisory Board, St. Luke’s Health System, and Medical Solutions share insights into the trends shaping healthcare strategy across the industry. This in-depth discussion shares how organizations are responding to policy uncertainty, changing payor dynamics, workforce pressures, and the growing role of technology in improving operational efficiency and expanding access to care.
Key Insights Include:
- The 2026 policy outlook, including Medicaid funding cuts, OBBBA impact, and safety net access
- Workforce planning strategies across urban and rural health systems
- Approaches to cost management and payor mix challenges
- Emerging technology strategies focused on access and operational efficiency
Featured Speakers:
- Ryan Lamb, Vice President of Enterprise Accounts, Medical Solutions
- Bradford Koles, Advisory Board
- Brienne Sandow, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, St. Luke’s Health System
WEBINAR: Inside Joint Commission Staffing Compliance: How Organizations Are Preparing
As healthcare organizations prepare for Joint Commission National Performance Goal #12, many are taking proactive steps to strengthen their staffing approach and prepare teams ahead of future surveys.
In this discussion, health leaders share how they’re interpreting the new goal, building and documenting staffing plans, and operationalizing workforce strategies across different care settings. The conversation also explores why staffing continues to emerge as a critical patient safety focus and what preparation looks like at the unit level inside healthcare organizations actively navigating these changes.
Key Insights Include:
- How organizations are preparing for evolving staffing compliance expectations
- Best practices for documenting and operationalizing staffing plans
- Why staffing strategy is becoming increasingly connected to patient safety
- Real-world examples of unit-level workforce planning
Featured Speakers:
- Patti Artley, Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Solutions
- Hussein Tahan, Former System VP & Chief Nursing Officer, MedStar
- Jill White, Chief Nursing Officer, Hutchinson Regional
Let’s Continue the Conversation
The workforce decisions you make today shape retention, operational stability, clinician experience, and patient care outcomes for years to come. Both our Clinical Connections and Market Moves webinar series were created to bring together health leaders and industry experts for candid conversations about the workforce challenges, operational pressures, and strategic decisions shaping healthcare across the industry.
Looking for more? Tune into more discussion on Medical Solutions’ podcast Healthcare Workforce Unplugged, or connect directly with the Medical Solutions team here.
