Most hospital CEOs realize how payment trends affect the surgery department. New payment models are making it more important than ever for hospital ORs to increase quality, improve outcomes and control costs. Few hospital leaders, however, understand how surgeon income…
Leadership & Management
With the increasing use of reimbursement models paying for the longitudinal health status of a patient, health systems' historical value proposition of simply being the provider of hard assets to the market is becoming less effective. In a fee-for-service environment,…
CEOs brought in from the outside move faster in making changes to their executive team and are less likely to promote executives from within the organization, according to research from RHR International.
Easy does it. As we prepare for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, this has been our mantra.
Emergency department leaders know that in today's healthcare reform environment, capital requests for emergency department expansions die quickly and are buried with sermons about primary care medical homes, population health management, accountable-care organizations and multi-use ambulatory centers. In the era…
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The rate of CEO turnover in the hospital sector reached 17 percent in 2012, which is near a historic high, according to recent analysis by Phillips, DiPisa & Associates. There are several reasons hospital CEO turnover is more prevalent than…
Akram Boutros, MD, just started his term as president and CEO of The MetroHealth System June 1, but he has already jumped in head first to his new duties at the helm of the Cleveland-based safety-net system. Dr. Boutros brought…
For three years, America's hospitals and physicians have been living with the realization that "some day," the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will finally be implemented. And if news reports are to be believed, some components of the law…
It has been a fascinating first half of the year in the healthcare industry. The industry continues to evolve, due in part to several key issues impacting healthcare delivery today. Below we present what we believe are the five biggest…
After losing Medicare and Medicaid status and dealing with other legal issues, Shelby Regional Medical Center in Center, Texas, has shut down, according to a Light and Champion report.