The healthcare market is rapidly changing and efforts to determine physician alignment, ancillary growth and changing payment structures are enough to keep even the most confident CEO awake at night. Even things that used to be a bit easier, like…
Leadership & Management
An op-ed published on Bloomberg says most business CEOs are "curiously passive" about the rising costs of healthcare and are failing to implement the most basic management tools to deal with the problem.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., has reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with its registered nurses after a 17-month stalemate, according to a MassLive.com report.
The board of directors for Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in Salinas, Calif., has approved a tentative agreement between the hospital and its employees who are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, according to a NUHW release.
University of Mississippi Medical Center laid off 112 employees earlier this month, a downsizing the hospital attributes to current economic conditions, according to The Daily Mississippian.
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Although King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table can take on several meanings, one of the most common is the idea of a group of equal leadership figures sitting down to present new and actionable discourse. This concept is very…
Pauls Valley (Okla.) General Hospital has laid off 17 of 278 full-time employees as part of a restructuring plan to improve efficiency and realign job responsibilities, according to a Pauls Valley Democrat report.
There's no doubt a hospital administrator's job is difficult and demanding, and it's only getting tougher. As competition and expenses increase, hospital executives must prepare administrators to effectively lead during a time of transformational change in our healthcare system. Here…
Only 13 percent of healthcare professionals believe hospitals have closed the diversity gap in leadership within the past five years, according to a new report from executive search firm Witt/Kieffer.
An intermediate rate design between fee-for-service pricing of medical services and capitated, or global, payments is the concept of bundled payments. Under this scheme, the health care organization gets a fixed fee for a given medical condition. A recent article…