Women may only hold 25 percent of senior leadership roles in healthcare, but Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health is actively bucking that trend. 

We are at a time of unprecedented change in healthcare. Hospitals are currently reeling from the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, desperately trying to regain their financial footing. Material inflation and labor cost have pushed the majority of US hospitals into negative financial margins.  To survive, most hospitals are cutting costs, reducing length of stay (LOS) and trying to grow service lines with positive margins. Hospitals are attempting to balance increased census with the utilization of costly agency labor. The journey toward value in healthcare has accelerated, with many hospitals at risk of bankruptcy if they do not move quickly enough.   To address the need to reduce LOS and hospital admissions, our health systems conducted a 6 weeks proof of concept.  We implemented the following interventions (key results): 

At least eight hospitals and health systems announced changes to executive ranks and administration teams in March. 

The Senate passed a resolution March 29 that would expedite the end of the COVID-19 national emergency from its planned May 11 deadline to immediately upon the signature of the president, and President Joe Biden has reportedly indicated he will sign it.  

The number of CEO changes at hospitals and health systems fell 22 percent in February after accelerating the month prior, according to a March 29 Challenger, Gray & Christmas report.

The doctor is in. Or is she? A physician shortage has been well documented and appeared to only grow more serious as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on. It can feel like daunting circumstances, as healthcare access is limited and even more so for those in underserved populations.

Mount Sinai Health System has launched a new program to provide more career advancement opportunities for Black men within the organization.

The term "burnout," as it relates to clinicians, has become part of the lexicon in hospitals. Why are nurses leaving? They are burned out in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why are fewer doctors pursuing emergency specialties? Again, according to a Washington Post article, burnout.

Members of SEIU District 1199 New England at Care New England's Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., have voted "no confidence" in their employer.

Growing inflation coupled with staffing shortages will continue pressuring healthcare organizations to do more with less, per a recent McKinsey report.

On March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress regarding the app's data collection practices. The interaction was hardly amicable. 

Hospital executives are always focused on managing looming issues at hand and often their presentation at the next meeting on their calendars. Success, in all areas of leadership, is tied not only to tangible actions but to soft skills, as well.

The U.S. healthcare marketplace is facing a list of challenges that, on some days, might seem insurmountable. 

Charles Barbera, MD, president and CEO of Tower Health's Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pa., told state lawmakers that unlike progress made in cancer treatments, motor vehicle safety and heart disease, the U.S. is "losing the ground to gun violence." 

Most people wouldn't jump at the opportunity to film their colonoscopy, but Georges Leconte, CEO of New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, is an exception. 

Matching operating room (OR) supply and demand and ensuring adequate anesthesia coverage without underutilizing resources are two of hospitals' toughest challenges in the perioperative space.

Service combines over a hundred dedicated perioperative experts and data analysts with AI and workflow automation technologies to boost efficient care delivery.

When you watch a game on television, it may look like the coaches are pacing up and down the field — on the sidelines. However, the coach is always the point person — the one players are looking to for advice and ultimate decisive action. 

If you've made your way to the C-suite in a hospital, it might be easy to think you simply need to focus on being the best leader you can be right now. And, while that's certainly true, effective leadership requires a willingness to keep learning and growing.

The board of trustees for Cleveland-based MetroHealth System has a new chairman four months after welcoming a new CEO and recovering from an alleged scandal involving its former chief executive.