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.
Leadership & Management
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.
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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.
Gerard van Grinsven has served as president and CEO of Henry Ford West Bloomfield (Mich.) Hospital since 2006.
Today's hospital and health system leaders can learn a lot from George Bernard Shaw, the famed Irish writer and social critic. He is renowned for the following passage: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists…
WellStar Health System in Marietta, Ga., has acquired the Center for Health Transformation, a think tank established by Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives.