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Leadership & Management
Peter Slavin, MD, has served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston since 2003. He also is a professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he teaches internal medicine and healthcare management.
Greenville (S.C.) Hospital System is altering its brand and name, switching to "health system" moniker.
J. Knox Singleton has served as CEO of Inova Health System in Falls Church, Va., since 1984, back when it was called the Fairfax Hospital Association.
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs. These tools are standing the test of time, not fading away as fads, and they are becoming staples in hospitals' communication strategies. Regardless, some CEOs and other leaders still have their doubts.
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Becker's Hospital Review is currently accepting nominations for its 2013 Leadership Awards, which will be finalized and announced this spring. The awards acknowledge leaders who have made exceptional achievements throughout their careers in healthcare.
Higher than expected patient volumes are leading Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando (Fla.) to hire 80 new employees, according to a report in Orlando Business Journal.
In November, overall hospital prices grew by 0.2 percent from the month prior, making them 2.7 percent higher than prices in November 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Thousands of registered nurses are prepared for a one-day strike on Christmas Eve across nine hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to an Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle report.
Verde Valley Medical Center is a non-profit hospital in Cottonwood, Ariz.