Leadership & Management

William McDonald has served as president and CEO of St. Joseph's Healthcare System in Paterson, N.J., since Sept. 15, 2006.

David Lord has served as president and CEO of OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group in Escanaba, Mich., since Feb. 4, 2013.

In a recent Physician Wellness Services/Cejka survey, physicians and healthcare administrators were asked to review cultural attributes and rate how important they felt each attribute is to physicians' satisfaction on a 10-point scale, with 10 representing "extremely important."

The union representing more than 500 workers at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Wash., has notified hospital officials that they are set to strike in 10 days if a new contract agreement is not reached, according to a News…

Orlando (Fla.) Health will implement a tobacco-free hiring rule April 1, requiring all individuals who receive a job offer to undergo a nicotine screening, according to a system news release.

Along with a host of other executive appointments last March, Scott & White Healthcare, based in Temple, Texas, appointed Dick Dixon as CFO, having formerly served as the system's senior vice president of financial operations.

Healthcare marketing is challenging by nature. Some universal marketing guidelines do not necessarily hold true for hospitals and health systems. For instance, many people who see a hospital's advertisement for cardiovascular surgery may have no need for those services when…

Mark Merrill has served as president and CEO of Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health since June 2009.

When President Barack Obama implemented a massive overhaul of U.S. healthcare in 2010 through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was a moment of change that had not been seen for almost two decades.

Carlisle (Pa.) Regional Medical Center has laid off an unspecified number of employees, according to a witf.org report.