Protecting healthcare workers is essential to sustaining safe, reliable operations. Yet many systems manage employee injuries, workers' compensation, and claims in disconnected workflows that limit insight and delay prevention.

In this session, Joseph Aldridge, Director of Risk and Insurance Operations at Banner Health, will share how Banner unified employee health, workers' compensation, and claims processes into a coordinated, data-driven model. By linking injury data with claims, return-to-work, and risk-mitigation activities, Banner created a clear value cycle: incidents are assessed quickly, cross-functional teams analyze root causes, and targeted actions reduce future harm.

This session will provide a practical roadmap for modernizing workers' compensation and employee health programs to enhance caregiver safety and reduce total cost of risk.