Leadership & Management

Joan Magruder, MBA, has served as president of St. Louis Children's Hospital, a part of BJC HealthCare System in St. Louis, since March 2013.

The Massachusetts Hospital Association has reported that as of last Thursday, 20 Boston-area hospitals treated 219 patients from the Boston Marathon bombings, according to a Boston Business Journal report.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to reorganize its workforce by slowing hiring, potentially reducing its hiring rate by approximately 2,000 employees this year, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.

Unionized employees at University of California hospitals will take a vote next week to authorize a strike, according to a U-T San Diego report.

The AHA has released its annual advocacy agenda, a list of the association's main priorities for the year and a resource for members to use to explain hospitals' concerns to legislators.  

The following hospital and/or health system job eliminations were announced or implemented within the past month. They are listed by the number of employees or positions affected.  

Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center is ending hospital services at its Lucerne Pavilion early this summer — sooner than expected — and the change will involve layoffs, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

An explosion at a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the small Texas city of West has forced area hospitals to ramp up their crisis management plans.

For the past several years, the United States has not been the only country to face a recession. Many parts of Europe have also undergone an economic crisis, especially Greece, and an article in today's American Journal of Public Health…

On Thurs., April 18, three panelists at a session hosted by the Chicago Health Executives Forum discussed the state of healthcare for uninsured and underinsured patients and how the delivery system with adapt to an influx of newly insured patients…