A new study on hospital board composition may serve to spark helpful dialogue on how health care professionals can contribute to organizational leadership, and on the value of greater transparency regarding the members of health care governing boards. However, it is fundamentally a controversial study, given its failure to consider legal requirements, governance principles and economic realities that are critical to establishing board composition of hospitals and health systems-which are amongst the most complex organizations in our society.

Several medical schools have made headlines in recent weeks for withdrawing voluntary participation in U.S. News & World Report's popular rankings, alleging they interfere with diversity measures. 

Twenty U.S. governors are joining forces to strengthen, expand and protect reproductive rights in their states. 

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

Mark Keroack, MD, president and CEO of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health, is warning that healthcare's workplace shortages present a public health crisis.

Former President Jimmy Carter decided to forgo additional medical intervention and entered hospice care on Feb. 18, The Carter Center said in a statement.

Chief executives across healthcare are facing tighter budgets this year, but it's still important to innovate and take calculated risks.

Chief executives across healthcare are focused on customer service, urgency and simplicity for their organizations and customers in 2023.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health began 2023 with a low, but positive operating margin, but labor costs are expected to increase again this year on the back of recent union activity in the state. 

Robert Garrett serves as CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, an 18-hospital health system based in Edison, N.J.

According to one COO, the challenge of recruiting and retaining hospital employees goes beyond the emergency room and other clinical areas buckling under the current nursing shortage. 

In November, Florida medical boards passed a ban prohibiting physicians from providing gender-affirming care to patients under 18. The rule has not gone into effect yet, but some hospitals are already cutting services, the Tampa Bay Times reported Feb. 15. 

Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, has honorably retired from his volunteer role as reserve assistant sheriff with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, according to a Feb. 16 news release shared with Becker's. 

Rob Allen began serving as president and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health Dec. 1, and he brought his previous experience with the 33-hospital organization to the role.

Though the pandemic's most imminent threats have waned, heightened patient volumes, workforce shortages, inflation and supply chain disruptions are still urgent issues for hospitals — and these challenges are even more significant for rural facilities, according to Joanne Conroy, MD, president and CEO of Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health.

Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore received a presidential award for its Blue Dot Human Trafficking Initiative.

During this time of rapid change, healthcare organizations have experienced a crisis of consumer loyalty.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth will end their Centura Health joint venture, with each health system directly managing their respective care sites in Colorado and western Kansas that comprise Centura Health.

"Chief business innovation officer" isn't a title you hear every day. But Catherine Corbin — who  is pioneering the role at Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — is an architect by trade. She's used to building things from the ground up. 

Less than 15 percent of board members overseeing the nation's top hospitals have a professional background in healthcare, while more than half have a background in finance or business services, according to a study published Feb. 8 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.