Speech Closing the Gap: Funding the New Normal of Healthcare Operations ECG’s John Budd joins a discussion with South Shore Health’s Allen Smith, MD, at the ACHE 2023 Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Chicago on March 21.This session offers insights from presenters’ experience as health system and consulting leaders as well as data from more than 100 executives from hospitals across the US on how successful organizations are working to close the gap between current performance and the levels necessary to fund their future. Presenters will discuss research-based models, evidence-based strategies for prioritizing new initiatives, and critical success factors based on the work of executives and transformation leaders in the field.Learning ObjectivesPresent evidence-based models and lessons learned from leaders across the country in how to lead and sustain margin transformation.Offer leaders an understanding of what it takes to effectively lead margin transformation at an organizational scale.