The Strata LEAP Award:

The Strata LEAP (Lead, Excel, Achieve and Progress) Award honors exceptional hospitals and health systems that use Strata’s tools and services to solve real-world problems related to financial analytics, business intelligence, and decision support.  

This prestigious customer success award recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievement of Strata’s healthcare customers. Each year, the LEAP Award is given to customers that use Strata tools to strengthen financial performance for their organizations and the communities they serve, and that partner with Strata to propel its products forward to benefit hospitals and health systems across the country. 

LIFT25 LEAP Award Winners 

At LIFT25, four organizations were honored for their outstanding achievements in transforming insight into impact through Strata’s enterprise performance management solutions. 

StrataJazz® Award Winners

Endeavor Health

About
Endeavor Health is a comprehensive, community-based health system serving the Chicagoland area. Formed through the 2022 integration of four health systems, Endeavor includes 9 hospitals, 5 clinical institutes, and more than 300 care locations. 

Area of Focus 
After unifying under a single mission, Endeavor Health consolidated its StrataJazz® instances, integrated Workday ERP, and established a systemwide decision support model. In early 2025, the organization launched a new labor management process leveraging Strata’s Productivity Reporting functionality. With 21 new custom metrics and standardized practices across the enterprise, leaders now use the tool daily to guide staffing decisions, performance tracking, and budgeting. 

Our Partnership 
Endeavor expanded adoption of StrataJazz® from 24% to 85% of leaders and increased platform engagement by 53%. These improvements in efficiency and accountability helped drive a 0.9% increase in operating margin year-over-year, empowering leaders to make more data-driven, strategic decisions across the organization. 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 

About 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is one of the nation’s leading cancer care institutions, consistently ranked among the top two hospitals for oncology since 1990. With more than 1,500 attending physicians and 4,700 nurses, MSKCC serves patients across New York and New Jersey. 

Area of Focus 
MSKCC sought to transform its approach to labor management by giving operational leaders more timely and accurate insights. Using StrataJazz® Productivity Reporting and Management Reporting dashboards, the organization replaced inconsistent manual processes with automated, real-time analytics. The new “Front-Line Manager” dashboard delivers trend and variance data directly to nursing and senior leaders, supporting more efficient staffing and financial oversight. 

Our Partnership 
Since implementation, more than 100 nurse leaders have gained direct access to actionable data, saving teams two days per month in manual reporting time. The initiative not only improved operational efficiency but also strengthened engagement among frontline managers, turning data into a catalyst for performance improvement. 

Axiom® Award Winners 

Cape Fear Valley Health 

About 
Cape Fear Valley Health is a leading healthcare provider in southeastern North Carolina and the state’s eighth-largest health system. Founded in 1956, it has grown to include eight hospitals, over 150 care sites, and more than 1,000 physicians. 

Area of Focus 
As a Strata customer for more than 20 years, Cape Fear Valley Health has used the Axiom® platform to manage costs, benchmark performance, and identify opportunities for growth. Leaders use comparative analytics to evaluate labor efficiency and supply utilization at a granular level, uncovering opportunities to realign expenses while maintaining high standards of care. 

Our Partnership 
Through its partnership with Strata, Cape Fear reduced FTEs per adjusted occupied bed from 4.46 to under 4.2, cut agency staffing by 220 full-time equivalents, and saved nearly $30 million in premium pay over three years. Using Axiom® to model new service-line investments, the health system has expanded to nearly 100 clinics, further extending access and impact across the region. 

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) 

About 
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is an academic health system and statewide leader in research, education, and patient care. The organization delivers care through multiple hospitals and clinics across South Carolina, guided by a mission to improve the health of communities through innovation and collaboration. 

Area of Focus
MUSC leveraged Axiom® Cost Accounting and Decision Support to unify financial processes and enhance transparency across service lines. By instituting daily system interfaces, monthly performance reviews, and quarterly provider meetings, leaders created a culture of accountability supported by consistent data. 

Our Partnership
Through disciplined financial oversight and improved collaboration, MUSC achieved a 27% year-over-year improvement in EBITDA margin, a 35% increase in contribution margin per case, and reduced average length of stay. This partnership highlights how an integrated data foundation and structured engagement can turn information into sustainable performance improvement. 

Celebrating Collaboration and Impact 

Each of these organizations exemplifies how healthcare leaders can use data and technology to drive measurable impact. Their work reflects the spirit of the LEAP Award — sharing insights and strategies that elevate not just their own organizations, but the entire healthcare community.