In a recent blog post, Andrew Bachrodt & Dan Cosentino of ECG Management Consultants review healthcare executives’ outlook on the US healthcare system for 2021.

Newsweek released its 2021 rankings for best hospitals in the world March 3. Here are the leaders of the top 10 hospitals on the list:

Before the pandemic, the office was viewed as a place individuals can get work done. As vaccines roll out, many business leaders are beginning to understand that an office is a social place for collaboration. There are four things to keep in mind when bringing employees back to the office, according to a March article in Harvard Business Review.

Some managers may have put performance reviews to the side amid the pandemic, but Tom Gimbel, CEO of recruiting firm LaSalle Network, said they are more important than ever in a March 1 column published in The Wall Street Journal.

The following hospitals and health systems have named new board members this year.

Leadership positions often require constant evolution, reflection and self-awareness. Here is what experts say on how to effectively lead according to research. The following leadership articles were published by Becker's Hospital Review in the last week:

There have been four hospital executives elected to serve on national hospital leadership boards this year, including three hospital CEOs and one COO.

A recent CNN article highlights six Black women on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic battle.

The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines March 3 on advancing California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's nomination to be HHS secretary to the full Senate, according to The Hill.

Four former U.S. surgeons general are calling on President Joe Biden to enact National Vaccine Day as a one-time federal holiday this year.

The Biden administration's COVID-19 health equity director, Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, is determined to better understand underlying factors that cause health disparities for people in minority communities, she told NBC." We have a complicated intersectional web that we are now coming to understand better," Dr. Nunez-Smith said. "Structural racism is real."

Business leaders need to have certain skills: empathy, perseverance and resourcefulness. Chad Sanders, author of Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph, said in a March 2 podcast published in Harvard Business Review that Black business leaders can learn from adverse experiences and take advantage of it.

President Joe Biden's HHS continues to hire leaders to guide the department amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CDC, which is based in Atlanta and falls under HHS, includes physicians and others who are leading the agency during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As COVID-19 cases improve, the head of the CDC said she is "really worried" about states rolling back public health measures, according to a March 1 article published in CNBC.

Peter Banko serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Centura Health. 

Nishant Anand, MD, FACEP, serves as President at BayCare Physician Partners and Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at BayCare Health System.

David Chou serves as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Harris Health System.

CEOs are the most confident they have been since 2004, according to The Conference Board's "Measure of CEO Confidence" in the first quarter of 2021.

Companies often spend few resources on the offboarding process of employees. With the labor market resulting in excess layoffs, experts gave guidelines on how to turn departing employees into a valuable resource in a March article published in Harvard Business Review.