Stephen Mansfield, PhD, has served as president and CEO of Methodist Health System in Dallas since 2006. Under his leadership, Methodist Health has doubled in size and experienced the most profitable years in its history.
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Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev., has announced a round of layoffs as Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare prepares to take over the hospital July 1, according to a Reno Gazette-Journal report.
The United States will need 5.6 million more healthcare workers by 2020, as the demand for healthcare services is expected to grow twice as fast as the national economy in the next eight years, according to a new study from…
John B. Chessare, MD, began serving Towson, Md.-based Greater Baltimore Medical Center as president and CEO in June 2010. Dr. Chessare has been an active and visionary leader of GBMC. As president and CEO, he oversees a 281-bed acute-care, non-profit…
Organizations don't always have the longest of lifespans, and this isn't limited to healthcare organizations. For instance, the average "life expectancy" of a multi-national Fortune 500 company is between 40 and 50 years. One-third of Fortune 500 companies from 1970…
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Florida's government-owned hospitals will soon begin a new legislatively-mandated process in which they must hold public meetings, hire valuators, compare their clinical performance to other hospitals and decide whether to sell, according to a Miami Herald report.
Physicians' work-home conflicts could lead to devastating results, such as burnout, depression and alcoholism, according to a study published in the Archives of Surgery.
In March 2011, Laura Irvine was appointed as president of Methodist Dallas Medical Center. As president, Ms. Irvine leads a 515-bed hospital and 250 physicians with expertise in more than 60 medical specialties.
CMS has said it will delay implementation of a new requirement that hospital boards include a medical staff member but will reconsider the requirement in future rulemaking, according to an AHA News Now report.