A Rare Moment for Defined Benefit Plans: Why Now Is the Time to Act
Sponsored by
Gallagher
December 8, 2025
Hospitals and healthcare sponsors of defined benefit (DB) plans face a unique window of opportunity. Current market conditions—marked by strong equity performance, high interest rates, and competitive annuity pricing—have significantly improved funded status for many plans.
These factors create an ideal environment for sponsors to take strategic action, whether by terminating frozen plans, reducing volatility in ongoing plans, or optimizing enterprise risk. Healthcare organizations have an added advantage: the ability to manage pension assets alongside endowments, enabling a holistic approach to investment risk and return. Acting now can strengthen balance sheets and enhance long-term financial sustainability.
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Understand how these rare conditions create opportunities for DB plans not seen in years.
Learn why acting now can lock in gains, reduce volatility, and optimize funding before market dynamics shift.
Discover how choices made in the next 6–12 months could shape plan sustainability for the next decade.
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State of Health Security 2025: Research and Trends
Sponsored by
Thoropass
December 2, 2025
Get all of the data your health organization needs to build strategy and plans for 2025 here. In this report, Thoropass has analyzed thousands of data points from leaders in the cybersecurity industry, government agencies, leading journalists, and more.
The easily digestible stats inside reveal important trends for 2025 including:
How AI benefits outweigh (or don’t) their risks
The need for more structure in new data
Why user access to data is such a concern
The increasing speed needed to report on incidents
The True Cost of Communication: Rethinking Price Per Minute in Language Services
Sponsored by
AMN Healthcare
December 2, 2025
When evaluating language service providers, what's the first number you look at? For many healthcare leaders, it's the price per minute. But what if that number isn't telling you the whole story? What if the lowest rate actually costs you more?
The true cost of communication is measured in more than minutes. Real-world examples reveal how factors like session duration, start-up time, and opportunity cost can turn a low cost per minute into a hidden expense. See how these factors influence patient care and financial performance. Download the eBook to learn more.
Reducing length of stay: Enhance care quality through targeted utilization interventions
Sponsored by
Optum
November 20, 2025
Organizational initiatives to improve length of stay are complicated by the fact that many lower-acuity patients have already been switched to the outpatient setting, resulting in a more complex population of patients to be cared for and addressed to successfully complete discharge.
In this vein, the emphasis should no longer be thought of strictly from the standpoint of reducing length of stay, but rather adapting care pathways and care delivery to our changing patients’ needs — making necessary process updates to continue to remain an efficient organization.
Targeting underlying complicating conditions such as diabetes, heart failure, respiratory problems, or sepsis is crucial, as is having reliable and consistent processes for admittance, nursing and rounding protocols and proactive discharge planning.
The best practices included in this playbook have proven to be successful with Optum client organizations and can be adopted to fit the culture and staff of your organization.
Operational Focus Yields 9% Savings in Supply Cost Per Discharge at El Camino Health
Sponsored by
HealthTrust Performance Group
November 7, 2025
El Camino Health wanted more than lower prices. They wanted savings without compromising quality.
Facing rising financial pressures and the need to protect its high standard of care, El Camino Health launched a rigorous RFP process to find a partner that could deliver guaranteed savings without compromising quality. The health system selected HealthTrust Performance Group in 2021, whose unique GPO model aligned with El Camino Health’s operational, clinical, and financial goals at a critical turning point.
Learn how the partnership delivered nearly double the guaranteed supply chain savings, provided stability against market shifts, and enabled reinvestments that fueled quality improvements, workforce stability, and service expansion.
Bridging the Workforce Gap: Solutions for Hospitals Under Pressure
Sponsored by
Collette Health
November 7, 2025
Hospital leaders are tackling workforce challenges by re-engaging nurses amid rising burnout and building long-term talent pipelines to secure the next generation of caregivers. Strengthening both engagement and development is key to sustaining a resilient workforce.
This eBook contains three stories:
3 Ways Hospital Leaders Are Developing Talent Pipelines for an Enduring Workforce
Executive Sponsor Highlight - Collette Health
Declining Nurse Engagement? Here's What to Do About It