Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Team Based Care, APP Growth, and AI Innovation at Stanford Health Care with Clair Kuriakose
Mar 6, 2026
Clair Kuriakose, Vice President and Chief Advanced Practice Officer at Stanford HealthCare, leads nearly 1,000 advanced practice providers. She discusses intentional team-based care that boosted ambulatory APP visits, capacity solutions like an inpatient-at-home program, strategies to curb ED visits, and building governance to scale AI and frontline-driven innovation.
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Team Based Care Drove 17% APP Visit Growth
- Intentional team-based care drove a 17% increase in ambulatory APP visits at Stanford Health Care last year.
- Clair Kuriakose credited structured care models, MGTs, and physician-APP-nurse-operations collaboration for the gain.
Communicate Roles To Scale APP Capacity
- Educate stakeholders on APP roles, competencies, and role delineation to manage expectations and scale access.
- Communicate to patients when they'll see an APP versus a physician to preserve experience while expanding APP capacity.
Frontline Shared Leadership Unlocks Innovation
- Frontline clinicians generate the best ideas for operational innovation when given shared leadership channels.
- Stanford uses nursing and APP shared leadership structures to surface clinician-led solutions and include them on AI and taskforce committees.