As HHS hosts payers and medical associations in Washington, D.C., it will introduce a pledge July 29 to advance mental health and addiction care nationwide. Optum CEO Patrick Conway, MD, told Becker’s on July 27 that his company will be…
Leadership & Management
Few health systems have developed as many executive leaders as Cleveland Clinic. The answer to why, according to one of its most senior physician-executives, is less about culture than about a set of specific institutional practices that begin early in…
Leadership turnover has become one of the few constants in healthcare, as executives change roles amid consolidation, retirements and mounting operational pressure. The risk isn’t only the vacancy itself but what can leave with it — institutional knowledge, hard-won relationships…
AdventHealth structures its leadership development around a three-part framework: lead self, lead others, lead results. AdventHealth’s Audrey Gregory said the order isn’t incidental — it’s the whole argument. Most health systems build development programs aimed at the third stage and…
David Cole, MD, became president of the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014, when the Charleston-based institution operated as a single-campus academic health system. Over the next 12 years, he led its expansion into an 18-hospital statewide network delivering…
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The number of children in the U.S. is declining, and the drop is sharpest in the country’s largest cities, The Wall Street Journal reported July 26. Where does that leave hospitals and health systems? The number of children under 18…
Hospitals across the U.S. are seeking new CEOs as healthcare C-suites continue to evolve. Some organizations are eliminating individual hospital CEO roles in favor of regional leadership models, especially as health systems grow. Others have expanded hospital CEOs’ responsibilities in…
The community hospital CEOs recognized here are community stewards, strategic visionaries and patient advocates. While acute care remains central to their mission, these forward-thinking executives also prioritize expanding their institutions’ offerings, making sure to weave primary care, specialty treatments, rehabilitation…
For decades, healthcare has searched for the next breakthrough. Better therapies. Better technologies. Better payment models. Better data. More recently, new advances in artificial intelligence. Each has created value. However, none has fundamentally solved healthcare’s greatest structural challenge. Healthcare is…
Tampa General Hospital hosted CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz on July 23 for a tour of the academic health system’s food-as-medicine program at its Davis Islands campus. Dr. Oz sampled a Mediterranean diet-inspired menu developed by Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian…