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What makes an idea spread in healthcare and what actually lasts?Viral Healthcare is a short-form podcast hosted by Bruce Spurlock, CEO of Convergence Health, exploring the ideas, policies, innovations, and narratives that go viral across healthcare, separating what’s noise…
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Ep. 31: The Champion Problem: What Happens When Your Best Advocate Leaves? (opens the original)
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What happens to a successful healthcare initiative when the person driving it suddenly leaves? Champions can be essential to implementation. A respected physician can persuade skeptical colleagues. A nursing leader can maintain momentum. A project manager can navigate relationships, solve barriers, monitor data, and keep an initiative from slipping down the priority list. But that strength can create a hidden vulnerability. In Episode 31 of Viral Healthcare, Dr. Bruce Spurlock examines what happ
Ep. 30 Reflection: Why Healthcare Change Evaporates Before It Reaches the Frontline (opens the original)
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Rain can begin falling from a cloud and evaporate before it ever reaches the ground. Meteorologists call it virga . In healthcare organizations, something remarkably similar can happen to change. In this reflection on Episode 30 of Viral Healthcare , Dr. Bruce Spurlock returns to the overlooked role of middle managers and asks why strategies that seem clear at the executive level sometimes disappear before they ever become part of frontline practice. The problem usually isn't sabotage or resista
Ep. 30: The Middle Manager Problem Nobody Talks About (opens the original)
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A healthcare CEO can approve a new initiative. Frontline clinicians might even agree that it’s a good idea. And six months later, it can still be completely dead. What happened in between? In Episode 30 of Viral Healthcare, Dr. Bruce Spurlock examines one of the most overlooked forces in healthcare implementation: middle managers. Nurse managers, department directors, medical directors, clinic managers, quality leaders, and operational managers sit between strategy and execution. They’re often r
Ep. 29: Haven Healthcare Part 4 — What Actually Failed? (opens the original)
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On January 4, 2021, Haven Healthcare announced it was shutting down. After less than three years, the ambitious venture created by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase was coming to an end. The easy conclusion is that Haven failed. But is that the whole story? In the final episode of this four-part series, Dr. Bruce Spurlock looks beyond the binary question of success versus failure to ask something more useful: What exactly failed—and what survived? Bruce brings together the lessons f
Ep. 28 Reflection: When Is a Setback Actually a Warning? (opens the original)
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Productivity may decline. Resistance can grow. Unexpected problems emerge. Sometimes performance even gets worse before it gets better. But when does normal implementation friction become evidence that something is actually wrong? In this reflection on Part 3 of the Haven Healthcare series, Dr. Bruce Spurlock explores one of the hardest challenges in leading change: separating noise from signal. Looking back at Haven’s leadership turnover, competing initiatives, and other warning signs, Bruce as
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