Altius Healthcare Consulting Group

03/03/2026

🚨 New Episode Drops Tomorrow at Noon 🚨

Healthcare leaders are heading into 2026 under serious financial and operational pressure.

From workforce shortages and financial discipline to AI governance and private equity risk, this episode goes beyond the headlines and into what executives are actually dealing with right now.

Stephanie Dorwart sits down with Kevin Dady to discuss:

✔ Why annual budgets no longer work
✔ The shift to dynamic forecasting
✔ The need for faster, data-driven decisions
✔ AI governance and operational risk
✔ The future of private equity in healthcare

If you serve in healthcare leadership — you’ll want to tune in.

🕛 Live tomorrow at noon
🎧 YouTube: https://youtu.be/_zlBzqHMqCw
🎙 Spotify: https://youtu.be/_zlBzqHMqCw

03/03/2026

🏀 Great seasons do not start by accident—they start with a plan.

At Altius, productivity is not about reacting to chaos. It is about building a strategy that holds up under pressure.

We do not chase wins at the buzzer.
We design systems that perform all season long.

🏆 Productivity is preparation.

02/18/2026

🚨 Bullying in healthcare isn’t just a workplace issue — it’s a patient safety issue.

In today’s episode of Beyond the Benchmarks, Renee Thompson shares a striking finding:

“Orthopedic surgeons who are deemed rude… have a 10% higher infection rate in their patients.”

Let that sink in. Toxic behavior doesn’t stay in the break room — it impacts outcomes at the bedside.

🎧 The full episode drops TODAY at 12:00 PM EST on:
➡️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iH7U6e3Y5M
➡️ Spotify: https://altiushcg.biz/spotify_pod
➡️ Amazon Podcasts: https://altiushcg.biz/amazon_pod

This is a must-listen for anyone in healthcare leadership, nursing, or frontline care.

01/30/2026

Mastering productivity does not require more dashboards or constant new initiatives. It requires consistent leadership attention.

When performance is reviewed regularly and acted on deliberately, visibility improves, accountability strengthens, and momentum holds. Over time, that discipline separates activity from real improvement.

Check in with your team today to improve tomorrow!

01/26/2026

In healthcare, it’s easy for every alert, staffing issue, and “fire drill” to feel like a red. In her TED talk, “An ER Doctor on Triaging Your ‘Crazy Busy’ Life,” Dr. Darria Long makes a simple point: calm comes from recognizing that not everything is equally urgent.

The same applies to healthcare operations. When everything is treated like a crisis, leaders lose focus on what actually drives performance. High-performing organizations triage, filter the noise, and direct attention where it can move the needle.

At Altius, this discipline is core to productivity mastery. We help leaders shift from a constant state of reaction to clear priorities, supported by data, structure, and repeatable operating habits.

Watch the full TEDx talk for Dr. Long’s framework. https://loom.ly/1r_Q_Z0

How do doctors in the emergency room stay calm and focused amidst the chaos? Drawing on years of experience, ER doctor Darria Long shares a straightforward framework to help you take back control and feel less overwhelmed when life starts to get "crazy busy."

01/23/2026

The sooner you realize this, the better: Activity is not the same as progress.

Teams can be fully booked and constantly responding while performance stays flat. Productive teams operate differently. Expectations are clear, work is predictable, and results can be measured.

Productivity mastery is about reducing noise and building discipline that delivers results.

01/21/2026

Beyond the Benchmarks is the Altius podcast hosted by our CEO Stephanie Dorwart, featuring expert conversations on productivity, workforce strategy, leadership alignment, and performance discipline.

Multiple episodes are now live. Subscribe and watch now!
🎥 YouTube: https://loom.ly/ZGvqxSU
🎶 Spotify: https://loom.ly/CujFb2Q

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01/16/2026

Productivity breaks down when decisions are made without clear tradeoffs, consistent data, and shared accountability. 🤝

Organizations that improve performance decide deliberately, review results consistently, and align leaders around the same expectations.

That decision discipline is what makes productivity sustainable!

01/13/2026

Mastery of productivity comes not from adding steps, but from removing what no longer serves the mission. Yoda voice optional. The lesson is not. 🙌

01/12/2026

Grit is sticking with your future, day in and day out - not just for the week or the month, but for years.

Angela Duckworth’s TED Talk, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” explores why long-term success is less about talent or intelligence and more about sustained commitment over time. https://loom.ly/GDAeN5E

In healthcare, the organizations making real progress commit to that same discipline:
🔷 Consistent behaviors
🔷 Consistent standards
🔷 Consistent follow-through

Our work at Altius is built around helping leaders create the structures that turn perseverance into measurable results.

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predicto...

01/08/2026

Productivity initiatives rarely fail because teams resist change. More often, it is because productivity is misunderstood. 📉

Doing more work, adding tools, or isolating improvement efforts within a single department does not create sustainable results. True productivity improvement requires leadership alignment around expectations, workforce decisions, and how performance is measured and reviewed.

Mastery starts when leaders set clear productivity goals and commit to managing it with discipline instead of pressure.

01/07/2026

Ready to go Beyond the Benchmarks? Episode three of our new podcast is out NOW!

🔹 In this episode, our CEO Stephanie Dorwart sits down with Todd Birch and Robin Bradbury, the leadership team behind PrognostiCare, to explore how predictive analytics are changing the way healthcare leaders make decisions.

The conversation focuses on two of healthcare’s most persistent challenges: staff retention and patient leakage. Drawing on decades of experience as hospital executives, Todd and Robin share how real-time data and a Moneyball-style approach can help leaders identify risk before it becomes reality, understand where patients are going, and take action with confidence.

If you are responsible for workforce stability, market share or strategic planning, this episode offers practical insight you can apply now.

Watch or listen today!
🎥 YouTube: https://loom.ly/JS6RJ3U
🎶 Spotify: https://loom.ly/CujFb2Q

In this episode, host Stephanie Dorwart, CEO of Altius Healthcare Consulting Group, sits down with Todd Birch and Robin Bradbury—the leadership team behind P...