#229 - Brilliant Healthcare HR Strategies That Help Teams

Three Things That Escaped the Savannah Convention Center

Luke Carignan and ASHHRA Executive Director Jeremy Sadlier are back from ASHHRA26 — and the sessions were too good to leave at the convention center. Bo is out this week, but the content more than covers for it. Three themes from the conference floor that every healthcare HR leader needs on their radar right now.

🤖 AI Hit the Bedside and the Org Chart — Simultaneously Four out of five physicians are already using AI for documentation and admin. Nursing schools are rethinking curricula to train AI-augmented clinicians. But the session that landed hardest: AI voice cloning needs only 10 seconds of audio, and threat actors are already targeting executives for wire transfer fraud. Shadow AI is a real liability — vendors are switching AI features on by default inside tools you bought for other reasons. When an AI tool causes harm, it lands as a people problem. That is HR's desk. Action: Build your AI tool inventory — not a policy, an actual list. Know what is on, who turned it on, and what decisions it is influencing.

🚨 Workplace Violence Is Now a Retention Problem With a Badge ASHHRA26 keynote speaker Brian Euridge, Senior Director of Public Safety at University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine, delivered one of the most practical sessions of the conference. His community policing model — security staff required to log two short non-medical conversations daily — drove a 46% reduction in nurse assaults in nine months. The stat that should stop every HR leader: six in ten nurses who experience violence have considered leaving the profession. You cannot prevent what you cannot see — and most incidents are never reported. Action: Treat under-reporting like a safety journey. Drive reporting up first. Reduction follows.

📋 The Layoff Wave Is Really a Skills Pivot Read the cuts as reallocation, not contraction. Administrative and billing layers are absorbing the risk; direct clinical roles stay protected. The organizations winning are hiring for competencies instead of titles and building talent through apprenticeships. ASHHRA's partnership with Dallas College now has national models in 26 states. Wellstar's ChangeWell program trained 100 change champions with zero projects delayed more than 30 days. Action: Reach out to Jeremy, Amy McEnroth at Dallas College, or Mark Sherry at Baylor Scott and White. The apprenticeship blueprint already exists. You do not have to build it from scratch.