Thursday November 13, 2025
Code Blue for Talent: Turning the Healthcare Staffing Crisis Into a Strategic Advantage
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 p.m. ET)
Healthcare systems across the U.S. are facing an unprecedented staffing crisis, but also a rare opportunity to redesign workforce strategy. Recent national workforce data—commissioned by Strategic Education, Inc. and featured in Newsweek—reveals that more than half of healthcare workers plan to switch jobs within the next year.
In this executive briefing hosted by Workforce Edge, leaders from Baptist Health and Workforce Edge will connect national data to real-world action—showing how forward-thinking systems are using education access, career mobility, and data-driven insights to strengthen retention and build long-term workforce capacity.
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Objectives
- Recent trends and industry picture of the current healthcare workforce.
- How organizations are reacting to these trends and how they are thinking about the future of their recruitment, retention, and upskilling strategy.
- How to strengthen retention and build long-term workforce capacity.
Price
ASHHRA Member: FREE
ASHHRA Non-member: $25.00 FREE
Credit(s)
1 (CHHR, ACHE Fellowship*, HRCI, SHRM) for live webinar attendees.
*By attending the Code Blue for Talent: Turning the Healthcare Staffing Crisis Into a Strategic Advantage live webinar offered by ASHHRA participants may earn up to 1 ACHE Qualified Education hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.
Presenters
Dan Marsella
VP, Enterprise Partnerships
Workforce Edge
Dan Marsella is a workforce transformation strategist with more than 14 years of experience advising enterprise leaders on how to use education as a lever for business performance. As Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at Workforce Edge, powered by Strategic Education Inc., he partners with HR, operations, and talent executives to design education benefit strategies that unlock internal mobility, close skill gaps, and deliver measurable ROI.
Dan brings a cross-industry perspective – spanning healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and beyond – grounded in a consultative approach that aligns workforce investment with organizational goals. He helps employers shift tuition assistance from a passive perk to a high-impact talent engine, equipping workforces to adapt, advance, and lead through change.
A frequent collaborator with senior leaders navigating transformation, Dan is known for reframing how organizations view talent development: not as a cost, but as a strategic advantage.
Karen Bloyd, PhD
System Manager, Employee Experience
Baptist Health
Katelyn Bloyd is system director of Employee Experience for Baptist Health. In this role, she works alongside the vice president of Employee Experience to strategize opportunities to build upon a workplace culture that is team-centered, inclusive, and aligned with the health system’s mission and values. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. She currently leads the development of engagement programs that span an employee’s career with the system. Additionally, she creates resources and tools to help leaders build meaningful connections with their staff through recognition, feedback, and personal and professional development.
Katelyn has more than 15 years of healthcare business management experience, with 10 years in human resources. Prior to HR, she was a business manager for Bluegrass Spine, a distributor of Stryker Spine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Indiana University and went on to pursue a master’s degree in Christian leadership followed by Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration with an emphasis in strategic management from the University of the Cumberlands. She also is a certified DiSC Workplace trainer.