Healthcare Works Best When No One Works Alone
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health | Author, WorkforceRx: Agile Strategies for Unsettled Times Healthcare often celebrates breakthrough technologies, new…
Trust Is the Treatment
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan At a recent “Human & Tech Week” event, I heard Apollo Neuroscience’s Chief Medical Officer David Rabin…
Not Enough Doors, Too Many Gaps: Why Education Isn’t Producing the Healthcare Workforce We Need
By Van Ton-Quinlivan Think about the number of disconnected systems a learner must navigate to move from education into employment,…
Does Place Still Matter? Rebundling Higher Education for an Unbundled World
By Van Ton-QuinlivanIn preparing for a recent lunchtime panel with the American Council on Education and its 800+ conference attendees—titled…
Rebuilding Trust in Higher Education
By Van Ton-QuinlivanRecently, I attended the Ditchley–Lumina Summit, Redesigning Higher Education for the 21st Century, where an urgent question framed…
Keeping the Ladder Up: Ensuring Allied Health Workers Can Keep Climbing
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthOver the past five years at Futuro Health, I have watched thousands of our Scholars…
A Letter of Gratitude; Reflections of Futuro Health’s Mission
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthOne of the greatest privileges of my work at Futuro Health is hearing directly from…
Connected by Purpose: How We Built a Culture of Belonging from Miles Apart
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro HealthAt a time when organizational leaders are wringing their hands over the future of…
The Hidden Crisis in Behavioral Health: Gambling and the Workforce We Need
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro HealthThe U.S. is in the midst of a deepening mental and behavioral health crisis,…
Addressing Healthcare Worker Shortages: Insights from Keynote Speaking Across States
By Van Ton-QuinlivanConnecticut, Texas, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Wyoming, New York – This month, I added Florida to the list…
100 Episodes of WorkforceRx: Insights, Innovation, and Impact
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthWhen I launched the WorkforceRx podcast to spotlight leaders shaping the future of work, learning,…
Allied Health Roles & The Primary Care Doctor Shortage
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthThe U.S. should expect a shortage of 64,000 physicians by year-end with the deficit growing…
Going for Gold: AI, Apprenticeships, and Shaping Workplace Champions
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthLike millions of others around the world, I spent the past two weeks captivated by…
Reshaping the Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health Mental Health Awareness Month arrives with a poignant reminder of the growing shortage of…
Employers battle retention tension with new skills – and can generative AI help?
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro HealthAs employers know, we are in a serious healthcare workforce shortage. According to AMN Healthcare,…
Nurturing a diverse and resilient healthcare workforce
Last October, I was a part of a global panel put on by Women in Global Health, related to their…
Everything everywhere all at once: the proliferation of healthcare worker shortages
We need to own up to some hard truths. It’s getting dire out here. There are pervasive shortages in healthcare…
Thanksgiving Reflections on Partnerships, Progress, and Futuro Health's Journey
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health As we observe this Thanksgiving season, I am grateful on so many fronts.We appreciate…
The Future of Aging and Automation
I just returned from a Future of Work design thinking workshop hosted by IDEO and Blue Meridian Partners in NY. …
The Healthcare Workforce Crisis. Are Students Drowning in Debt or Is the Industry Under-Selling Its Jobs?
By: Van Ton-QuinlivanEducation and training are requisites in the highly credentialed field of care. Nowadays, however, it is difficult to…
Mental Health and the Healthcare Workforce Crisis
By: Van Ton-QuinlivanDuring May, the nation observes Mental Health Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness, challenging stigmas, and advocating for…
The Unique Role of an “Education Whisperer” in Workforce Development
By: Van Ton-Quinlivan In the U.S., over 80% of healthcare facilities have reported a shortage of allied healthcare workers. This…
A Podcaster’s (Grateful) Perspective: What would ChatGPT Say?
Recently, we celebrated the release of the 50th episode of my podcast WorkforceRx with Futuro Health. As I reflect on…
Speaking Out - The Healthcare Workforce Crisis
Through our Futuro Health Speakers Bureau , I am frequently invited by employer groups, national organizations, and education- and workforce-based…
What We Can Learn from Education Disruptor All-Star Sal Khan and His Innovations
I have the privilege of meeting many leading experts and innovators in the education and healthcare sectors in my role…
Filling the Mental Health Worker Pipeline Amid a Growing Crisis
By Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO Futuro HealthYou don’t have to look further than the daily news headlines to be reminded that…
Microcredentialing: A Responsive Solution for Leveraging Untapped Talent
Last December, the Washington Post called our current labor crisis “the most unusual job market in modern American history,” citing…
Solving Workforce Shortages is Not an Individual Sport: What Healthcare Needs to Do Differently
by Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro Health and Jeff Weiss, Founder and Managing Director of Center for Corporate Innovation (CCI) We…
As the Nation Grapples with a Mental and Behavioral Health Crisis, Futuro Health Named by California as a State-Approved Provider to Grow Peer Support Specialists
Starting this July, legislation that passed in 2020 will begin changing how the vulnerable in California’s communities receive care. As…
A Playbook for a Post-COVID Workforce: Talking ‘WorkforceRx’ with Experts from Education and Industry
Last December, the Washington Post called our current labor crisis “the most unusual job market in modern American history,” citing…