Leadership & Management

Belleville, Ill.-based Memorial Hospital and Memorial Medical Group are laying off 14 staff members, according to a Belleville News-Democrat report.

St. Louis-based SSM Health Care is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of employees, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Hospitals have long been criticized as inefficient, but two recent studies have shot some holes in this traditional critique, according to a column Peter Orszag wrote for Bloomberg.

There's palpable frustration among many department chairs, chief medical officers, medical directors and chiefs of staff. Compared to the several years they spent in medical school and clinical practice, many physician executives may feel underqualified to lead, according to a…

Tufts Medical Center in Boston is currently without a permanent CEO, is not searching for a new one and has no plans to do so in the near future, according to a Boston Business Journal report.

Pawtucket-based Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island has laid off seven employees, including two top executives, who were not named, according to a Providence Journal report.

About 12 employees at College Station (Texas) Medical Center will be laid off or transferred to other positions, according to a report by The Eagle.

CEOs of three Brooklyn hospital networks said hospitals in the borough are struggling due to lower reimbursement and a financially nonviable payer mix compared with their Manhattan counterparts, according to an op-ed in Crain's New York.

It’s quite common in healthcare for registered nurses to take on management and leadership roles within an organization. However, often, their RN training falls short when it comes to developing business acumen. To help nurses in these roles or those…

Tim Cook has served as president and CEO of Florida Hospital DeLand since Sept. 16. Florida Hospital DeLand is part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System.