Leadership & Management

Augusta Health in Fishersville, Va., is a community hospital serving the Shenandoah Valley.

St. Mary's of Michigan Medical Center in Saginaw is cutting 24 jobs and reducing work hours for another 46 employees.

Orlando (Fla.) Health is cutting up to 400 jobs immediately, which represents a 2 percent to 3 percent workforce reduction for the system, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

Roughly 3,300 registered nurses from eight hospitals in Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health are set to strike today, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

In a recent blog post, David Jarrard, president and CEO of healthcare communications firm Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock, said it's not enough for hospitals to simply change their business strategy.

In a recent post on athenahealth's Leadership Forum, Amy Edmondson, PhD, a faculty member at Harvard Business School, explains how inquiry, rather than demands, can be used by leaders to bring about effective change.

Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., is implementing a workforce reduction that will affect 165 employees, according to a Modesto Bee report.

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., has laid off 14 full-time and eight part-time employees, according to a Westerly Sun report.

Efforts by health systems to provide care in the most appropriate, lowest cost setting coupled with advances in minimally invasive techniques have shifted many hospital cases to the outpatient setting over recent years. As a result, the quality of the…

Scott & White Healthcare, based in Temple, Texas, will no longer hire new employees who use tobacco, according to a Waco Trib report.