Ask a healthcare C-level leader what's keeping him or her up at night and chances are the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) rule and payment model that takes effect this month wouldn't even crack the top 10 list.
Leadership & Management
The board of EvergreenHealth — a Kirkland, W.Va.-based public healthcare system — approved a resolution to add two commissioners to the five-member King County Public Hospital District board.
Ten hospitals and health systems were deemed the most diverse in the U.S., according to DiversityInc's 2016 rankings. DiversityInc's ranking of healthcare organizations is a specialty list included in its ranking of Top 50 Companies for Diversity, an annual list now in…
In a recent whitepaper, Coker Group discusses how effective management of patient flow can improve performance of a healthcare organization.
The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Washington, D.C. lawyer Michael Missal as the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Hospitals are seeing increasing amounts of management turnover, especially in the C-Suite. Skilled and experienced healthcare executives are in short supply mostly due to an industry-wide talent drain, lack of mentoring, and minimal succession planning.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration has issued layoff notices to 89 state employees at University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington as part of an expected 2,000 or more layoffs to help balance the state budget, according to the…
James R. Downing, MD, president and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of 213 new members, which include world renowned scholars, scientists,…
A recent partnership with Strata Decision Technology and an emphasis on quality have helped Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System improve clinical outcomes and sustain savings of $150 million.
We want our leaders to be confident. If they aren't, who will listen to them? At the same time, an overconfident leader — one who is ignorant of one's own limitations — can be detrimental to an organization.