Adapt and reinvent workforce strategy
Workforce challenges directly affect margin, access, and reinvestment capacity, yet many workforce strategies are based on outdated care and staffing models, misaligned productivity standards, and inadequate tools. Chartis combines clinical, operational, financial, and digital expertise to unlock your workforce capacity for measurable margin improvement and sustained financial performance.
Are workforce challenges impacting your financial performance?
Margin compression, regulatory complexity, rising labor costs, and workforce shortages are forcing health systems to rethink how work gets done. At the same time, frontline leaders are often expected to manage daily work without the right tools and infrastructure. These challenges lead to capacity gaps, misaligned productivity standards, and unnecessary manual work. Rather than focusing on cost reductions alone, leading healthcare organizations must unlock workforce capacity and redirect resources toward higher-value care and growth priorities to improve margins and reinvest in your organization’s mission.
Adapt and reinvent your workforce strategy
Chartis brings together clinical, operational, financial, and digital expertise to help health systems redesign care and staffing models, modernize workflows, and equip frontline leaders to manage daily work effectively. Our approach connects systemwide workforce strategy with practical, department-level execution so improvements in productivity and resource utilization translate into measurable margin improvement, reduced variability, improved quality, and expanded access.
Every healthcare organization’s workforce challenges are unique, but the opportunity to unlock workforce capacity and improve financial performance is available. Let’s start a conversation about how your workforce can free up capacity to fund your mission.
From red to black: How Chartis partnered with a community health system to drive financial stability
Workforce optimization played a critical role in stabilizing financial performance by improving productivity, redeploying capacity, and creating the margin needed to reinvest in care delivery and long-term resilience.
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Workforce Collection
Explore Chartis’ latest thinking, client results, and perspectives on workforce optimization—focused on productivity, capacity unlock, leadership enablement, and financial performance.
Meet our leaders
Jon List
Jon List is a Senior Partner in Performance Transformation. He brings significant experience leading complex, integrated financial and operational transformations and has partnered with standalone community hospitals, regional health systems, national health systems, children’s hospitals, and academic health enterprises systems to improve expenses and grow revenues in both financial turnaround and good-to-great transformations.
Barbara Bryan
Barbara Bryan is a Senior Partner in Performance Transformation. Barbara brings over 25 years of healthcare consulting experience leading financial and clinical transformation engagements with a focus on IT integration to enable sustainable outcomes.
Eric Burch, RN
Eric Burch, RN, MBA, FACHE, is a Senior Partner in Performance Transformation at Chartis. He brings over 30 years extensive of experience in driving strategic initiatives that enhance healthcare delivery and operational performance.
Pam Damsky
Pam Damsky co-leads the Clinical Transformation Line of Business. Pam has over 35 years of healthcare experience in organizational strategy, alignment, clinical transformation, and performance improvement to help organizations succeed today while preparing for new and future environments.
Dan Shapiro, PhD
Dan Shapiro, PhD, is a Senior Partner in Performance Transformation and leads the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions, where he and his team assist leaders of multi-hospital systems with efforts to reduce burnout and the turnover of high-value physicians, nurses, Advanced Practice Providers, and other staff.
