Executive Briefings
A series of insights from OPEN MINDS Founder and CEO, Monica E. Oss, Executive Briefings are crafted for executive leaders navigating the complexities of health and human services. Each briefing connects market intelligence with expert analysis to help guide strategy, respond to disruption, and improve organizational performance.
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Retention Is The New Recruitment
October 7, 2025Why do health and human service workers accept a position with a new organization? And why do they stay? Those questions were the focus of a new national surveyâAddressing Todayâs Healthcare Workforce Challenges: Results From A National Study. Not surprisingly,… -
For Merger Success, Lead With People
October 6, 2025The health and human service field is seeing record numbers of mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations (MA&A) (see Creating A Merger Strategy For Turbulent Times: A Managing Through Chaos Roundtable Discussion and Another Year, More Mergers). Many are driven by changing… -
Clearing The LTSS Landscape
October 4, 2025Total long-term services and supports (LTSS) spending was $563.7 billion, or 13.7% of the $4.1 trillion spent on personal health care in 2023âsee Who Pays For Long-Term Services And Supports?. Public payers accounted for most of it at 69.4%âthough that… -
In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass
October 3, 2025Women dominate the U.S. health care workforce, yet there is the perception (and reality) of a glass ceiling.âŻA recent study of Medtech Big 100 companies (the largest medical technology companies)âWomen Gain Ground In Medtech Leadership, But Parity Remains Far Offâconfirmed… -
With Malice Toward None
October 2, 2025Another year, another political cliff. As of October 1, 2025, the U.S. federal government has entered a partial shutdown caused by the failure of Congress to pass either the 12 annual appropriations bills or a stopgap continuing resolution. This avoidable… -
Leadership Defined By Mindset
October 1, 2025Right now, the challenges facing leaders in the health and human service field are many. Leaders need to find a path to mission and financial sustainability by navigating the changes in the role and rules of government, the market footprint… -
The Growing Government Contracting Juggernaut
September 30, 2025U.S. health care spending (both public and private) is projected to reach one-fifth of the economy by 2033. Health care costs have increased steadily to account for 17.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023âup from 7.2% in 1973 and… -
The Broken LinkâRetention & Education
September 29, 2025Workforceâincluding supply, retention, and upskillingâremains a major strategic issue for most health and human service organizations. One indicatorâturnover rates are highâeven in the c-suite. Through May, the chief executive officer turnover rate was the highest in the recent past, up… -
Revenue Over Volume
September 27, 2025How are health systems planning to navigate the year ahead? One of the takeaways from the new survey of financial leadersâSurvey Insights: Health System Capital Spending Trendsâis that margins and revenue are the focus. Volume of services is no longer… -
The ER Bottleneck
September 26, 2025Of Medicaid-enrolled youth who have mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits, 11.9% resulted in boarding in the ED. âED boardingâ is defined as the practice of holding consumers in the emergency department for three to seven days while awaiting an…
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