Richard Hammett, MBA, has served as the CEO of The Medical Center of Aurora (Colo.) since August 2012. He also serves as the CEO of the medical center's Centennial (Colo.) Medical Plaza campus.
Leadership & Management
Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J., is an affiliate of West Orange, N.J.-based Barnabas Health.
The title of hospital CEO wasn't all that common thirty years ago, or even in the 1980s. Instead, leaders often held titles like "administrator" or "executive director," which reflected the relatively stable environment of a hospital industry focused on inpatient…
Last night, "60 Minutes" aired a segment that focused on alleged emergency department practices at hospitals owned by Health Management Associates, and executives at the Naples, Fla.-based for-profit hospital operator said the report "relied entirely on disgruntled former employees," some…
Chelsea (Mich.) Community Hospital is part of Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Dexter, Mich.
Based on a recent flurry of published assertions, emergency department documentation and billing have come into scrutiny as many institutions claim the use of electronic health records has contributed to billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private insurers…
Dean Gruner, MD, has served as president and CEO of ThedaCare, a five-hospital system in Appleton, Wis., since 2008.
In a blog post, TeleTracking Technologies provides five examples of hospitals and health systems that have created significant cost savings or revenue growth by implementing real-time capacity management solutions.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago is part of Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care.
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in St. Paul and Minneapolis has opened its new Peter J. King Pediatric Emergency Department on its St. Paul campus, according to a Pioneer Press report.