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by Robert "Bo" Brabo and Luke Carignan
Healthcare runs on people. The ASHHRA Podcast is where the leaders responsible for those people come to think out loud.As the official podcast of ASHHRA (the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration), this show has built a library of 250+ episodes for one audience: the CHROs, CPOs, VPs, and directors leading the healthcare workforce.Every week, hosts Bo Brabo and Luke Carignan sit down with the executives doing the hard work inside hospitals and health systems. Past guests include leaders from AdventHealth, Universal Health Services, Advocate Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and UC Health. These are unscripted, practitioner-to-practitioner conversations about what actually works, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.WHAT WE COVERWorkforce shortages and retention. Leader and caregiver burnout. Culture and identity. Labor relations. Total rewards and benefits strategy. AI and HR technology. Policy and regulatory shifts. The peopl
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- Yesterday33 min
#264 - BJC HealthCare's Sean Peterson on 4 a.m. Discipline and Taking a Recruiting Team From Deficit to Green
Featuring Sean Peterson, Director of Talent Strategies, BJC HealthCare Sean Peterson is up at 4 a.m. and in the gym from 5 to 7:30 every weekday, before his two daughters wake up. He joins Luke to talk about how physical discipline becomes professional discipline, and how it carried a recruiting team from a deficit to the plus column in a year. 🏋️ Do Hard Things Early Sean played college soccer, turned down an MLS Combine invite, and got back into fitness when his first daughter was born. He ...
- 2 weeks ago31 min
#263 - Healthcare HR News, October 2026: Nurse Pay Compression, the 26% EAP Gap, and Fitch's 1.5% Margin Peak
Luke Carignan and ASHHRA CEO Jeremy Sadlier close out October with three costs health systems already pay without naming them. Each one eats margin and morale, and each ends on a decision that sits with HR. 💵 Pay Compression Is a Fairness Problem First Nurse.org's 2026 salary survey of 3,758 nurses: 93% say pay is not keeping up with inflation and workload, and 23% say they are underpaid compared with new hires. Mercer's 2026 planning data puts healthcare merit increases at 2.9%, tied for the...
- 3 weeks ago33 min
#262 - ASHHRA27 Preview: San Antonio's JW Marriott Hill Country, May 16-18 2027, and the 15-Partner AP3 Program
Luke is on the road, so Bo sits down with ASHHRA Executive Director and CEO Jeremy Sadlier for a different kind of Weekly News Drop: the news is ASHHRA's own. Registration for ASHHRA27 is open, and the two of them walk through what the conference will feel like and how the ASHHRA Preferred Partner Program is built to lower what healthcare HR pays for everything it buys. 🤠 One Campus, Everybody You Meet Is ASHHRA ASHHRA27 runs May 16-18, 2027 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, with s...
- 3 weeks ago40 min
#261 - Student Loan Repayment Beats the $50,000 Sign-On Bonus: CLASP's Romy Newman on ROTC for Healthcare
Featuring Romy Newman, VP of Talent Ecosystem, CLASP Disclosure: CLASP is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Bo opens with a question from his Army years. What if every recruit paid for basic training up front and the Army just hoped they stayed? That is close to how the United States trains clinicians. Romy Newman co-founded Fairy Godboss, ran digital ad sales at the Wall Street Journal, and now leads talent ecosystem at CLASP, which connects health systems to clinical students before graduati...
- 3 weeks ago44 min
#260 - ChenMed's Jeff Battinus on Agentic AI Recruiting, and the 78% Who Chose the AI Interview
Featuring Jeff Battinus, VP of Talent Attraction and Selection, ChenMed, and Yaniv Shimoni, Co-Founder, Take2 Disclosure: Take2 is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Twenty-two years in healthcare recruiting, and Jeff Battinus says his career is changing in front of his face. He joins Bo with Take2 co-founder Yaniv Shimoni to separate real agentic AI from the version that is a sticker on an old process. 🤖 Agent or Bumper Sticker Battinus's test is blunt. Most of the big vendors, he argues, bolt...
- 4 weeks ago28 min
#259 - Healthcare HR News, October 2026: GLP-1 Coverage at 36%, Gen Z at 30% of RNs, Predicting Attrition
Bo and Jeremy are back from the ASHHRA Executive Summit in Savannah, Luke held the fort, and the three of them land on one theme: the systems that win are not doing anything magical. They are deciding earlier than everyone else. 💊 The GLP-1 Decision You Cannot Keep Deferring One in eight American adults is on a GLP-1 right now, per KFF. IFEBP's June 2026 pulse survey puts employer coverage for weight loss at 36%, and 19% of employers have already dropped it. Jeremy's read from the summit: can...
- Oct 8, 202614 min
#258 - 64% of Rural Health Leaders Expect a Physician Retirement. Only 41% Have a Succession Plan.
Luke Carignan runs this one solo while Bo and Jeremy are in Savannah for the ASHHRA Executive Summit. One theme ties the week together: your move. Every story lands on a decision that sits in an HR office. 🩺 The Physician Succession Crisis Nobody Scheduled New research from MGMA, Jackson Physician Search and LocumTenens.com found 64% of rural administrators expect a physician to retire or cut back within five years, and only 41% have a formal succession plan. Two-thirds of the significant ph...
- Oct 7, 202635 min
#257 - Nationwide Children's Inclusion Lead on Belonging, Discernment, and the 44-Day New Hire Window
Featuring Dominiece Hoelyfield, Lead Inclusion and Culture Consultant, Nationwide Children's Hospital Bo opens with a question worth sitting with. The last time you walked into your workplace, did you feel like you belonged? Not tolerated, not accommodated, not represented in the right percentage on a slide. Dominiece Hoelyfield has spent a decade and a half on the difference, and she answers it as a practitioner rather than a program. 🧭 Serve the People Who Serve the People Healthy employees...
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Healthcare runs on people. The ASHHRA Podcast is where the leaders responsible for those people come to think out loud.As the official podcast of ASHHRA (the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration), this show has built a library of 250+ episodes for one audience: the CHROs, CPOs, VPs, and directors leading the healthcare workforce.Every week, hosts Bo Brabo and Luke Carignan sit down with the executives doing the hard work inside hospitals and health systems. Past guests include leaders from AdventHealth, Universal Health Services, Advocate Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and UC Health. These are unscripted, practitioner-to-practitioner conversations about what actually works, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.WHAT WE COVERWorkforce shortages and retention. Leader and caregiver burnout. Culture and identity. Labor relations. Total rewards and benefits strategy. AI and HR technology. Policy and regulatory shifts. The peopl
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