Health systems restructure operating models amid industry challenges
Becker's Healthcare December 16, 2024
Health systems across the country are restructuring their operating models to navigate an increasingly challenging healthcare landscape. Rising financial pressures, workforce shortages, inflation and shifting patient demands are pushing health systems to rethink how they operate, allocate resources and deliver care.
Large health systems including CommonSpirit and Providence recently implemented significant changes to their operating models, with Ascension in the middle of a similar transformation.
Renton, Wash.-based Providence, a 51-hospital system, recently revamped its operating model to include a leaner executive team and a new divisional structure.
Providence recently consolidated its operating regions into three divisions — North, Central and South — resulting in three divisional teams rather than seven regional senior leadership teams. The health system...