The Rogers Behavioral Health union vote in Wisconsin isn’t a one-off. It’s a signal. Here’s what behavioral health operators should be doing right now to assess organizing vulnerability and fix the people-ops gaps that invite card campaigns in the first place.
Most behavioral health operators don’t need a celebrity CEO. They need a clinical leader who can pass a DCF background check, hold a license in three states, and not run from a CARF survey. Here’s how to think about executive search in this sector.
The behavioral health workforce shortage gets framed as a recruiting story. It isn’t. It’s a retention, compliance, and manager-training story, and the regulators are starting to treat it that way. An operator’s take from AHS ahead of NAATP National in Amelia Island.
Behavioral health organizations are facing a workforce environment defined by scarcity, regulatory exposure, and accelerating operational complexity. HR is no longer an administrative function. It is a material risk domain that directly affects licensure, reimbursement, clinical capacity, and enterprise value….
