The number of U.S. companies that separate CEO and board chairman roles has once again reached record levels, but the move at several of those companies has come as a response to a crisis, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren's "Medicare for All" proposal would cost some Kaiser Permanente employees their jobs, Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson said Nov. 4 on CNBC's "Closing Bell" from the @ Work: People + Machines Summit in San Francisco.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking COOs during the past few weeks.

Janice Bowen, the former COO of Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville, Md., died Oct. 26, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Healthmark Industries announced the appointment of former Clinical Education Director Stephen Kovach to Clinical Education Emeritus. 

Healthmark Industries announced the promotion of Mary Ann Drosnock, MS, CIC, CFER, RM (NRCM), FAPIC to Director of Clinical Education. 

The NIH and FBI are investigating 180 individual cases of alleged intellectual property theft of biomedical research funded by the U.S. government, primarily involving Chinese or Chinese American researchers, The New York Times reports.

Shreveport, La.-based Allegiance Health Management has agreed to terminate its management lease with Eureka Springs (Ark.) Hospital, according to The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. The two parties have been at odds over the condition of the 12-bed hospital for months. 

Medical groups have a unique place in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment. No matter their ownership structure, they have the opportunity meet unique needs of patients and can allow hospitals and health systems to provide improved access to care.  

  After Democratic candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released her "Medicare for All" funding plan last week, one of her rivals, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., claimed his funding strategy is more progressive, ABC News reports. 

Fostering gender equity and diversity efforts within the workplace requires substantive initiatives that generate tangible and meaningful outcomes.

The Senate shot down an effort by Democrats to overturn the Trump administration's State Relief and Empowerment Waivers, which allowed states to offer health plans that do not meet ACA standards, The Hill reports. 

As mobile and video-based technologies continue to become more commonplace across industries, their use within the healthcare space continues to increase. More hospitals and health systems are adopting digital care delivery through means such as telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

Members of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's mental health task force say they feel "a little used" and like "some figurehead or some person to fill a room" after the mayor produced an action plan that did not reflect the ideas discussed, The New York Post reports.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he believes his $30 trillion "Medicare for All" plan will be fully paid for, but he doesn't want to produce more detailed funding plans right now. 

Americans do not trust any healthcare stakeholders aside from nurses to improve the U.S. healthcare system, according to a survey conducted by The New York Times, the Commonwealth Fund and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Ahead of the fourth planned electricity blackout of October in California, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie implored Gov. Gavin Newsom to cancel the shutoff due to potentially "life-threatening effects" on the state's 1.6 million veterans, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. 

American Telemedicine Association announced Oct. 28 the addition of four new members to its 2020 board of directors.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking CEOs during the past few weeks.

Members of the Tennessee Hospital Association elected leaders to its board of directors for 2020, including a new chairman.