Barry Wolfman, the new CEO of George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., is developing an updated strategic plan for the hospital, according to a Washington Business Journal report.
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Robert Grossman assumed responsibility as dean and CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City in July 2007. As dean and CEO, he leads NYU School of Medicine and NYU Hospitals Center, the latter comprising Tisch Hospital, the…
Cultural and gender diversity is a laudable goal, especially for organizations' C-suites, which have traditionally lacked variety in this respect. Many healthcare leaders associate a diverse leadership team with improved patient satisfaction, more successful decision-making, achieved strategic goals, better clinical…
Approximately 3,500 members of the Service Employees International Union in St. Paul and Minneapolis will vote today on whether to authorize a strike that could last up to five days, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report.
Hospitals may find it beneficial to increase the role of public relations and marketing in their benefit-reporting process, especially as regulatory and governmental officials place increased scrutiny on hospitals' non-profit statuses.
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The idea of aligning physicians with hospitals and health systems is not new. In fact, it has been experimented with since the 1990s and the rise of managed care. In many cases those relationships crashed and burned, and the idea…
Kaiser Permanente has reached tentative, three-year agreement with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents approximately 100,000 workers at hundreds of Kaiser facilities in nine states.
Mark Laret has been CEO of UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, including UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, since April 2000.
The following is reprinted with permission from strategicplanningMD.As simple a concept as balanced scorecards are, organizations still have difficulty implementing them effectively. Although the fundamental purpose of a balanced scorecard is to increase the organization's focus on execution and results…
In February, Salem (Ore.) Hospital laid off 30 full- and part-time employees in a $30 million spending cut initiative, and now the hospital may eliminate an additional 150 full-time-equivalent positions over the next two to four months, according to a…