• How 8 healthcare executives would advise a current presidential campaign

    Executives from payers, health systems, FQHCs and more have weighed in on a simple question: "If you were advising a presidential campaign right now on healthcare, what would you put at the top of the agenda?"
  • How one exec tackles staffing issues ahead of hospital opening

    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's upcoming Arthur M. Blank Hospital was first imagined in 2015. Now, Linda Matzigkeit, chief administrative officer, has been thinking outside the box about staffing strategies ahead of the new hospital's opening.
  • How to apply AI to population needs and cost savings — 4 takeaways

    In an interactive session at the Becker's 11th CEO + CFO Roundtable, Alex Kleinman, global leader of Genpact's healthcare business, discussed the application of analytics and AI in transforming population health and achieving cost savings and other clinical performance goals. Genpact, a professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform business, serves various sectors, including healthcare.
  • Being CEO can take its toll

    The CEO role provides the opportunity to play a role in shaping organizational culture and comes with various advantages. However, the challenges and pressures associated with the position can also be hazardous to the individual's health, Callum Borchers argues in a Jan. 31 column in the The Wall Street Journal.
  • Meet the 24-year-old running a Colorado hospital

    At age 22, Aidan Hettler didn't expect to get the job.
  • The most 'overrated' CEOs, per CEOs

    A cross-industry survey of CEOs conducted by Fortune pinpoints the leaders who they feel receive too much or too little credit. 
  • The No. 1 problem still keeping hospital CEOs up at night

    Hospital CEOs ranked workforce challenges as their No. 1 concern in 2023. Financial challenges, which held the top spot for 16 consecutive years prior to 2021, were listed the second-most pressing concern in the American College of Healthcare Executives' annual survey. Behavioral health and addiction issues ranked third. 
  • Investing in Impact: Orphan Drug Strategies to Maximize Business Performance and Improve Patient Outcomes

    Despite obstacles, health systems are exploring the powerful potential of orphan drugs for their critical benefits.
  • Cleveland Clinic's chief of staff on the dynamic role

    Beri Ridgeway, MD, is familiar with the variability and intensity of the chief of staff role. 
  • Michigan's newest health system sends a message: 'We matter'

    Angie McConnachie, the CEO of Marlette, Mich.-based UnitedHealthcare Partners, is the daughter of a farmer. She married a farmer. Her husband comes from a family of farmers. And one thing about farmers, Ms. McConnachie told Becker's: They're not going to take a day off work. 
  • What Texas Children's CEO has learned in 35 years at the helm

    Mark A. Wallace has served in a leadership role in Houston-area hospitals for more than four decades, giving him a front seat to healthcare's evolution as well as changes in the state and at his organization.
  • Health system CEOs deploy disruptive care models to thrive

    Health systems learned how to adapt quickly and embrace change over the last few years to care for patients during the pandemic, and overcome financial challenges that followed. Now, CEOs want to upend the status quo to stay relevant.
  • This 19-year CEO's succession plan: No 'Lone Rangers'

    George Hernandez Jr. has been the CEO of University Health since 2005, but the job has never grown dull. In fact, he told Becker's it still gives him a "high" and that he would probably do it even if he were not paid. 
  • What dual C-suite roles are most common in healthcare?

    Roles in which executives who already lead a region or facility take a second, dual position within the enterprise continue to make their way into hospital and health system C-suites, and these roles vary depending on factors such as the organization's size and the individual's skill set. 
  • Cleveland Clinic confiscated 30K weapons last year

    In 2023, Cleveland Clinic saw a record 14 million patients — and took 30,000 weapons from those patients and their visitors. 
  • Providence CEO's top 10 predictions for 2024

    On Jan. 23, Rod Hochman, MD, president and CEO of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, released his sixth annual list of healthcare predictions for the year ahead.
  • Dana-Farber probes 50+ papers, including CEO's

    The Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has notified research journals that it desires to retract six studies and correct 31 papers — including those co-authored by top executives — as part of an ongoing probe, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 22. 
  • 'It's going to break Denver Health': CEO speaks out on uncompensated migrant care

    Denver Health "is at a critical, critical point," according to its CEO, Donna Lynne, DrPH. 
  • 'The opportunity is priceless': What gets Dr. Baruch Fertel out of bed in the morning

    Baruch Fertel, MD, vice president of quality and patient safety at NewYork-Presbyterian in New York City, is eager for the new year. He spoke with Becker's about what's ahead for the hospital system this year.
  • Hackensack Meridian Health: Urgent care model reduces psychiatric ED visits

    Thanks to a scarcity of alternative options, patients with psychiatric conditions often seek help from emergency departments in non-crisis situations when their usual psychiatrist, psychologist or therapist is unavailable. To combat this issue, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health crafted a new service model, HMH Urgent Care, which blends behavioral health services with walk-in care and telemedicine visits. 

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