Pete November, president and CEO of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, kicked off a new LinkedIn series April 7 to spark conversations with healthcare leaders on the most pressing challenges facing the industry. His first inquiry: “What’s one question you believe…
Leadership & Management
Catholic healthcare was not started nor inspired from profit and loss statements or a desire to drive more shareholder value. Instead, through acts of mercy, women religious crossed oceans on rudimentary vessels and traveled along dirt roads by horse-drawn carriage,…
Recent jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube confirmed what most parents — and pediatricians in our health systems and children’s hospitals — already know: social media platforms are hijacking the minds of our young people. In March’s landmark decisions that…
The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget released April 3 proposes a $15.8 billion cut to HHS, while requesting $1.5 trillion for defense, a 44% increase. The budget would dramatically reshape federal spending priorities across healthcare and national security. It…
Access to care has always been a stated priority in healthcare. What’s different now is that health system executives are treating it as an engineering problem that requires structural redesign, not just additional capacity. An ambitious version of that redesign…
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Two in 3 healthcare executives are considering leaving their organizations. The figure comes from a fall 2025 survey from executive search firm B.E. Smith of 703 healthcare executives, a majority of whom worked in hospitals or health systems. In total,…
Healthcare executives have been at the center of a lot of controversy recently. As a result, we’ve also seen mob mentality and public outrage escalate into violent rhetoric. Following the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the New York Police…
Atlanta-based Grady Health System shared in mid-March that its president and CEO John Haupert will retire at the end of 2026, after 35 years in healthcare and 15 with Grady. Prior to joining Grady, Mr. Haupert served as COO of…
Kevin Schoeplein, who served as CEO of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare from 2011 to 2017 and spent nearly four decades with the system, died March 27. He was 72. He left behind a legacy of love, loyalty, devotion to family…
Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare has adopted a new governance structure and leadership model aimed at strengthening systemwide alignment and oversight. Here are three things to know, according to a March 27 news release from the health system: 1. Beebe Medical…