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Healthcare leaders continue to grapple with an expanding list of threats to the industry’s stability, from workforce shortages and reimbursement pressures to the growing role of artificial intelligence and the erosion of patient trust. Below, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other…
Healthcare leaders have spent years focused on physician shortages, but today’s workforce challenges extend beyond recruitment alone. Across the industry, organizations are balancing growing patient volumes, provider turnover, service line expansion, financial pressures, and rising expectations around access to care.…
A group of Senate Democrats is raising new questions about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s financial conflicts tied to Gardasil litigation against Merck. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., sent a…
Jimmie Lloyd Mayo, former president of Baptist Medical Center Nassau in Fernandina Beach, Fla., died Aug. 18 at age 79, according to his obituary. Mr. Mayo became the hospital’s first president in 1994 and retired in 2010, capping 29 years…
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Community Health Systems, a for-profit hospital operator based in Franklin, Tenn., is seeking leaders for numerous C-suite roles across its facilities. The system operates 60 hospitals and more than 800 care sites across 12 states. Below are job listings active…
Rural hospitals serve populations with greater need, fewer resources and less margin for error than almost any other type of healthcare institution. The CFOs who steward their finances are making the decisions that keep these organizations financially viable. Through disciplined…
The internal picture at San Diego-based Scripps Health is strong. Quality rankings place the system among the best in the country, its workforce is growing and new facilities are under development. Chris Van Gorder has spent 26 years as its…
Every health system CEO has a defining leadership experience and Scripps president and CEO Chrs Van Gorder’s happened years ago at an Orange County-based hospital he joined as a vice president. A conflict between clinicians and administration had been building…
The hospital and health system CEO role is shifting in several directions at once in 2026. Many systems have fewer dedicated hospital CEO positions than they did a year ago, as vacated seats are being folded into existing regional roles…