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Turning Staffing Into an Advantage | Solution Showcase with Allison Morin and Marguerite Cunningham

Episode Description

August 12, 2026: Marguerite Cunningham, VP/CNIO & VP Nursing at Inova Health, and Allison Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Symplr, join Sarah Richardson to unpack how workforce management stopped being a scheduling problem and became an executive one. Maggie shares how Inova's Smart Square rollout, born out of pandemic urgency, forced the system to build real governance around staffing instead of just automating a spreadsheet. Allison brings the national view: predictive accuracy up to 97.5 percent, contingency spend cut nearly in half, and a shift from descriptive to prescriptive workforce management.

Key Points:

  • 01:22 Roles and Why It Matters

  • 06:06 Governance Before Tech

  • 13:08 Results and Future AI Staffing

  • 19:42 Advice and Closing Thoughts


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