This past September, Weiss Memorial Hospital brought in the East Coast-based Jeffrey Steinberg, MD, to lead the Chicago-based facility. Dr. Steinberg, a urological surgeon, came to Weiss Memorial — which is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems — from…
Leadership & Management
McLeod Loris (S.C.) Healthcare will lay off 48 works as part of a restructuring and financial pressure, according to a Sun News report.
The CEO of Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care has said Glendale, Wis.-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is partly to blame for Aurora's troubled finances, according to a Business Journal report.
Most experts agree that the healthcare industry is in the midst of a transition from volume-based to value-based healthcare, but the process of changing a deeply ingrained culture of fee-for-service is still unclear. Ken Cohn, MD, MBA, FACS, believes hospitals…
Hospitals and health systems across the country are currently experiencing unprecedented cost-control pressure, which is leading to significant changes in the healthcare delivery system. Pay-for-performance, reimbursement pressure, consolidation and collaboration present both opportunities and challenges, and success in the future…
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Hospital direct-to-consumer marketing is increasing, and one of the preferred methods of interacting with consumers is social media. According to Ed Bennett, who manages web operations at the University of Maryland Medical Center and keeps a listing of U.S. hospitals…
Franc Galinanes, senior director of North American Partners in Anesthesia, discusses consolidation of the anesthesia industry in the February issue of the American Society of Anesthesiologist's Newsletter.
Healthcare leaders can learn from the mistakes of another industry that faced a similar pivotal environment in the late 1990s: newspapers, according to a Forbes report.
The American Hospital Association and four other organizations have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed against the National Labor Relations Board after it issued a final rule that streamlines election case procedures, according to an AHA…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare is consolidating two of its hospitals in the Atlanta area, which may result in management layoffs, according to an Atlanta Business Chronicle report.