Leadership & Management

Nick Turkal, MD, serves as president and CEO of Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wis., a system he has been with since 1987.

An expert who has led hundreds of searches for nonprofit and for-profit healthcare organizations shares seven key observations on the executive search process.

Bankrupt Brooklyn Interfaith Medical Center in New York received $20 million of state money, affording it funding to remain partially open until Dec. 31, according to a report from the New York Daily News.

The following 14 hospital and health system layoffs and workforce reductions were covered by Becker's Hospital Review in the last two weeks. They are listed below by number of employees and/or positions affected.

St. Louis-based SSM Health Care has eliminated 586 positions through layoffs and attrition, according to a St. Louis Business Journal report.

As Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Medical Center tries to slash $6.5 billion from its budget, the hospital may turn to a hiring freeze, voluntary furloughs and other workforce changes, according to a report by The Bakersfield Californian.

There is plenty of discussion about the risks of monopolies in healthcare, but Paul Levy, former president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author of the blog Not Running a Hospital, wrote a post about…

Less than two months after joining Instagram, a popular photo-sharing site, Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has more than 670 followers. Stephanie Johnson, Advocate's director of public affairs, isn't surprised.

Fayette County Memorial Hospital in Washington Court House, Ohio, is laying off eight employees, according to a Fayette Advocate report.

Crittenton Hospital Medical Center in Rochester Hills, Mich., has eliminated 24 full-time-equivalent positions, but did not specify how many employees were affected, according to a report by The Detroit News.