Results from a recent study suggest ICU physicians who direct fellowships are frequently overburdened from their workloads, according to research published in Critical Care Medicine.
Leadership & Management
President Barack Obama signed the landmark healthcare reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law in March 2010, and now here we are, two years later, trying to absorb the ramifications of the past and prepare for…
Increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve quality can be overwhelming for hospital leaders. Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, president of the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston, says she approaches this challenge, like others she has faced, as an opportunity.…
The son of a hospital CMO, John P. Lynch, MD, is constantly pushing himself and his organization to outdo itself. Some might say it's in his bloodline. Since 2009, he has served as CMO at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis,…
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…
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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…
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…