HHS and CMS have launched a healthcare advisory committee to help strengthen and modernize U.S. healthcare. The committee, which comprises 18 members, will advise both HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, on how to…
Leadership & Management
Barbara Donaho, BSN, who served as president and CEO of St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., from 1991 to 1994, died March 13. She was 92. After retirement, she was chair of the advisory committee for Kent, Ohio-based Kent…
Perioperative services remain one of hospitals’ most critical revenue engines, yet many organizations still manage OR staffing through fragmented data and manual workarounds. At Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), that challenge spanned 53 operating rooms, where scheduling processes…
The White House has delayed nominating a new CDC director, allowing Jay Bhattacharya, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, to continue leading the agency past the March 26 deadline, The Washington Post reported March 25. Dr. Bhattacharya has…
Strong leaders do not avoid difficult conversations — they handle them in ways that improve outcomes, according to a March 16 McKinsey article. How leaders communicate is increasingly tied to organizational performance. Courage, the authors argue, means addressing reality directly,…
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Becker’s is proud to recognize chief marketing officers who serve as strategists, storytellers and brand architects. These leaders drive the way patients, communities and the broader public connect with their hospitals and health systems. From data-driven campaigns to brand-building efforts,…
The most consequential intelligence in healthcare may not live in dashboards or strategic plans — it may live in the hallway conversations leaders are willing to stop and have. Front-line teams offer a ground-level view that boardrooms rarely capture: the…
Dell Ingram-Walker, president of Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple, Texas, died March 22, local NBC affiliate KCEN-TV reported March 24. Ms. Ingram-Walker dedicated more than 26 years of her career to serving children, families and…
CMS has introduced a new model to support whole-person care for children up to age 21 enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Accelerating State Pediatric Innovation Readiness and Effectiveness Model will run for 10 years and…
Dana Erickson, BSN, RN, president and CEO of Eagan, Minn.-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, has resigned from the board of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health as the system moves forward with its proposed acquisition of Minneapolis-based Allina Health,…