Leadership succession is ultimately about protecting an organization’s mission rather than any individual’s tenure, Rick Pollack, retiring president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, wrote in his final weekly column. Mr. Pollack, who announced his planned retirement in December…
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Healthcare access is increasingly treated as an engineering problem. Health systems across the country are building centralized referral hubs, deploying navigator workflows and redesigning the path from primary to specialty care. The bottleneck isn’t a shortage of desire to treat…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Sept. 16 to consider three of President Donald Trump’s nominees for top HHS posts: Nicole Saphier, MD, for surgeon general, Chris Klomp for HHS deputy secretary, and Timothy Westlake, MD,…
Just one of the chief human resources officers of the 10 largest health systems in the U.S. stepped into their role within the past year, while four have longer-than-average tenures. The average CHRO tenure was 5.2 years in 2025, according…
The extraordinary turbulence surrounding AI security is likely to have a profound impact on board governance of health care companies, both as to its overarching agenda and to director oversight obligations. This, given the extensive commitment by many such companies to AI…
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Eleven hospitals earned a spot on U.S. News & World Report‘s 2026-27 Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll, published Sept. 15, a designation for hospitals with the highest rankings across all 11 pediatric specialties evaluated. Their leaders include physicians and a…
Numerous members of the community board for Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., have resigned, CT Mirror reported Sept. 10. The hospital is part of Hartford-based Trinity Health of New England. The community board “serves in an advisory capacity” and…
Sam Hazen, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, joined an Aug. 28 meeting to discuss how challenges at the system’s Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital are being addressed. The Western North Carolina Health Policy Initiative’s meeting also included Mission Hospital President…
Anthony Robbins, MD, a pioneer in health policy, died July 5 at 85, The New York Times reported. Dr. Robbins died of complications from long COVID, heart disease and Parkinson’s disease, his wife said. He graduated from the Yale School…
Three of the CEOs of the 10 largest health systems in the U.S. took the helm within the past year, while four have longer-than-average tenures. The average healthcare CEO tenures is 6.4 years, according to a recent report from executive…