The Joint Commission, the largest accrediting agency in the United States, has announced a revision to its accrediting requirements, allowing organizations to go from a bi-annual to a tri-annual credentialing appointment process.

Hospital closures, service reductions, mergers and acquisitions are creating a bed shortage and impeding patients' access to timely care, a group of Massachusetts lawmakers contend in a letter to HHS that requests information from the agency on its part in monitoring or interfering with service reductions.

Cliff Megerian, MD, CEO of Cleveland-based University Hospitals, launched a book club for employees that had its first in-person meeting this month. 

Hospitals and health systems in the Midwest are closely monitoring a winter storm, which is expected to produce a blizzard and has resulted in weather warnings across the region. The storm comes as Americans have made holiday travel plans.

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital is undergoing significant changes to its governance with the election of three trustees who operate under the ideology of "medical freedom" and exercise skepticism about hospitals, clinicians and COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. 

Single cancer early detection tests exist today for four common cancers.* Generally speaking, early detection works, meaning that these screening tests can save lives and reduce cancer deaths. However, most cancers currently go undetected in their early stages because there are no screening tests for most cancers. 

Aromatherapy, considered an alternative or complementary therapy, is showing promise toward helping people with stress, anxiety, pain and post-surgery or post-procedural nausea in clinical settings.

If you are a physician or nurse working in a hospital or clinic, you likely have treated a victim of human trafficking - but you may not have known it. Nearly 9 in 10 victims seek medical care at some point during their exploitation and almost 70 percent have gone through an emergency department. 

John A. Brennan, MD, serves as president and CEO of Dallas-based Children's Health & UT Southwestern Joint Pediatric Enterprise.  

While the concept of value-based care has been around for some time, successful implementation is still challenging for many primary care providers. The solution revolves around extending patient-focused services beyond the office visit.

When Atlanta Medical Center shuttered, it was the closure heard cross-country. 

Leaders at companies across industries must face tough questions. And healthcare is no exception as the industry has grappled with workforce challenges and difficult financial circumstances, forcing some hospitals and health systems to cut jobs or services. Amid today's environment, industry leaders must be prepared to handle difficult questions from workers and others about the future of their organization.

Chad Melton, the president of Silverdale, Wash.-based St. Michael Medical Center, was fairly quiet when the hospital began showing signs of crisis this fall — a nurse calling 911, a preliminary denial of accreditation — but now, "he seems to be hitting his stride," according to Kitsap Sun columnist Niran Al-Agba, MD. 

Here are five hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CEOs.

Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center saw year-over-year declines in leadership and engagement scores on their employee engagement survey. When it launched a leadership institute, those scores improved by double-digits. 

We lose a lot when dehumanization in healthcare occurs in any direction. 

The CEO of a nonprofit hospital in Chicago is facing backlash after appearing in a political campaign commercial, according to a Dec. 15 article from ProPublica and PBS affiliate WTTW. 

The Corner Office series asks healthcare leaders to answer questions about their life in and outside the office.

University Hospital in Newark, N.J., has been searching for its next CEO to permanently replace Shereef Elnahal, MD. That successor could be announced as early as Dec. 22, the hospital board's chair told NJ Advance Media.

The following executive promotions made by women have been reported by Becker's this year.