Leadership & Management

Many U.S. hospitals are struggling to keep pace with surgical demand. Fragmented scheduling, manual workflows and limited visibility into block utilization can stretch surgical backlogs into multi-month operational challenges that frustrate surgeons, strain staff and constrain growth. At Pomona Valley…

Infusion centers are caught between two forces that won’t relent: patient volumes that keep climbing and clinician pipelines that can’t keep pace. For many organizations, the instinct is to hire more nurses or expand physical capacity, but that answer isn’t…

UofL Health (Louisville, Ky.) operates a large, multi-site academic health system where meeting surgical demand takes more than capacity alone. It calls for alignment across people, processes, and data to ensure access, flow, and performance work together. With nine hospitals,…

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, fielded questions from lawmakers May 21 during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the institute’s proposed budget. The roughly hour-and-a-half hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education…

John Dubis, who spent more than four decades in healthcare leadership, including as president and CEO of Edgewood, Ky.-based St. Elizabeth Healthcare, died May 14. He was 71. During his tenure at the six-hospital system, Mr. Dubis was known for…

When Barry Arbuckle asks fellow health system CEOs who their successor is, he is often surprised by the answer: There isn’t one. But after 25 years leading Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare, Dr. Arbuckle is handing the CEO role to President…

Stephanie Haridopolos, MD, chief of staff and senior adviser at HHS, will take on many of the duties of the surgeon general until a new surgeon general is sworn in, HHS confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s. The move…

Large health systems are seeking executives for CEO and president roles across hospitals, behavioral health facilities and regional markets nationwide. Below are job listings active as of May 19 on the career sites of St. Louis-based Ascension, which operates about…

Josh Lahav, vice president of cancer center operations at Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center, believes culture isn’t a background consideration — it’s a frontline operational strategy. In the wake of COVID-19, Mr. Lahav recognized that while much of the industry’s…

Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, was fired from the agency May 15 after she declined to resign, she told The New York Times. Her departure comes days after FDA…