FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, has resigned from his role, President Donald Trump confirmed in a May 12 Truth Social post. Eight things to know: 1. The post included a screenshot of a text message exchange between the two leaders,…

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has flipped the traditional hospital budget script, building margins around capital needs rather than the other way around. During Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting on the panel, “Margin, Mission + Market Pressure: CEO + CFO Straight Talk,”…

Mark Behl, president and CEO of Fairfield, Calif.-based NorthBay Health, isn’t against bold investments. But right now, with federal policy uncertainty squeezing margins and workforce costs still elevated, he has imposed a discipline on his organization that a lot of…

While I spent much of my career as a practicing OB-GYN, moving into leadership roles has meant being more removed from the day-to-day realities of frontline teams. That distance — combined with the pace of change in healthcare — can…

When Corewell Health began evaluating how to structure its lab services strategy, President and CEO Tina Freese Decker said leadership first had to answer a foundational question: Should the system pursue a partnership model? For Ms. Decker, the answer was…

As patient volumes climb, hospital leaders are under pressure to expand capacity without expanding their physical footprint. Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System found a way to do exactly that — doubling daily discharges and unlocking the equivalent of 80…

The fate of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, remained unclear May 11 after multiple news outlets reported May 8 that President Donald Trump had signed off on a plan to oust him — reports the president publicly waved off the…

Healthcare continues to face tight margins, patient expectations keep climbing and clinical and operational leaders are being asked to do more with the teams and tools they already have. The organizations making a difference despite these challenges are the ones…

Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, the nation’s first chartered hospital, opened a public museum May 8 as part of its 275th anniversary celebration and the United States’ semiquincentennial. The hospital, part of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, reopened its historic Pine Building to…

In early March, Memphis, Tenn.-based Regional One Health received certificate-of-need approval from the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission to build a $900 million hospital in Memphis, roughly a half mile from the system’s existing Regional Medical Center, which is Tennessee’s oldest…