Leadership & Management

Healthcare executives are running out of traditional options. Annual gap-closure initiatives measured in hundreds of millions have become the norm, not the exception. Cost inflation continues to outpace reimbursement, margins remain compressed and the playbook that worked a decade ago…

As healthcare systems race to modernize the patient experience, one truth has emerged across the industry: excellent digital care is not about the technology itself, but about what it enables. Becker’s asked dozens of healthcare leaders and executives — from…

When Richard Lofgren, MD, joined Oklahoma City-based OU Health as its inaugural president and CEO in 2022, the health system had recently launched as Oklahoma’s only comprehensive academic health system, bringing together the former OU Medicine hospitals, clinics and physician…

Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of San Diego-based Scripps Health, has received the 2026 Vision & Excellence in Healthcare Leadership Award from Partners in Care Foundation. The award was presented May 28 by American Hospital Association President and CEO…

The average age of newly appointed CEOs has increased sharply over the past few decades, according to an April 2026 research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The cross-industry study used data from BoardEx, including 50,510 U.S. CEOs…

Most health systems want to increase access, serve more patients and drive growth, which often involves adding facilities. However, when building new facilities, leaders must navigate capital constraints, inflation and high labor costs. To learn more about facility expansion trends…

Physicians are in a unique position to restore patients’ trust in medicine, John Whyte, MD, CEO of the American Medical Association, said in a viewpoint article published on Medscape. “[Mistrust] is not simply a communications challenge,” he wrote. “It is…

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,…