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Workforce strategy is shifting from recruitment-only to care-model redesign: Sanford Health’s internal subspecialty pipeline and virtual-support approach show systems trying to preserve specialty access without relying solely on scarce external hires, which matters for ACOs managing referral leakage, access, and total cost of care (Sanford Health subspecialty model). At the same time, cardiovascular and psychiatry capacity risks are becoming more acute as cardiologist retirements, aging specialty panels, and behavioral health shortages threaten Medicare access, risk management, and quality performance under value-based contracts (cardiologist retirement wave). The practical tension for VBC leaders is whether workforce investments—