Leadership & Management

Main Line Health has experienced significant growth since Jack Lynch joined the Radnor Township, Pa.-based system in 2005 as president and CEO.

Alan Levine, chairman, president and CEO of Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health, has overseen healthcare responses for more than a dozen major hurricanes throughout his career, but he told Becker's that Hurricane Helene was unlike anything he had seen before.

St. Louis-based Ascension's fiscal 2024 environmental impact and sustainability report highlighted its efforts in reducing its carbon footprint and commitments for the future.

This year has brought an exodus of board members from several hospitals. While each situation involves varying factors, they all come as the healthcare board's job gets more complicated amid shifting governance priorities and challenges.

Partnering with other health systems entails flexibility and alignment, Julie Freischlag, MD, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, N.C., told Becker's.

The sources from which leaders in academic medicine draw motivation might not be considered typical, Mount Sinai Health System CEO Brendan Carr, MD, told Becker's.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took the stage Oct. 1 for the only vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. 

Shane Strum brings a range of healthcare experience and now finds himself in a unique position: serving as the CEO of one health system while also acting as the interim CEO of another.

While some leaders were drawn to healthcare because of its expansive nature, others were inspired by family members to join the industry.

"She just landed from overseas this morning," Carrie Herzke, MD, chief medical officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said, referring to her chief nursing officer counterpart, Deborah Baker, DNP.  "I was probably the second person she texted after her…