The service line model for clinical specialties can provide many benefits through its integrated design and focus. To receive the full benefits of this model, however, hospitals need to create a management structure that fosters independent innovation as well as…
Leadership & Management
Even with the most talented management, hospitals and health systems can run into problems when executives don't work as an aligned, healthy team. Leaders might operate their respective units or functions well, even spectacularly, but not work together at an…
Detroit Medical Center will stop hiring smokers or tobacco users beginning July 1.
Ronald A. Paulus, MD, has big goals and an even "bigger" aim. As the first physician CEO of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, Dr. Paulus oversees a $1.2 billion integrated delivery system — the sixth-largest in the state. Prior to his…
Holy Cross Germantown (Md.) Hospital's new name, although seemingly obvious, was chosen deliberately to reflect its brand, according to a Washington Business Journal report.
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No hospital wants to go the way of record stores or videotape rental shops, which were slow to evolve and largely edged out of the entertainment industry. An organization with "stagnant, ostrich-like leadership" could face the same fate, according to…
The combined market share of the three largest health systems in the Chicago area — Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care, Mokena, Ill.-based Presence Health and Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare — reached 32 percent in 2011 for inpatient admissions, up…
Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health System is eliminating 42 jobs from its Cobb Hospital in Austell, Ga., according to a Marietta Daily Journal report.
Unionized hospital and healthcare workers in Philadelphia are planning a rally Wednesday and conducting a vote to strike, according to a union news release.
Along with high-quality healthcare, patients are also demanding and expecting hospitals to recognize their rights as consumers. Dan Munro, a contributor to Forbes, has listed 10 steps for healthcare organizations to make themselves more consumer-friendly.