One in 3 U.S. rural hospitals are at risk of closure, according to a January analysis. And nearly 70% of rural counties across the country are designated as health professional shortage areas, according to the National Rural Health Association. These…
Leadership & Management
Like many rural healthcare facilities, Eureka Springs Hospital (Ark.) has seen its fair share of challenges – such as an immediate jeopardy warning following a leadership transition in 2024. Now, the hospital has two healthcare veterans working to turn things…
Pete November, president and CEO of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, kicked off a new LinkedIn series April 7 to spark conversations with healthcare leaders on the most pressing challenges facing the industry. His first inquiry: “What’s one question you believe…
Catholic healthcare was not started nor inspired from profit and loss statements or a desire to drive more shareholder value. Instead, through acts of mercy, women religious crossed oceans on rudimentary vessels and traveled along dirt roads by horse-drawn carriage,…
Recent jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube confirmed what most parents — and pediatricians in our health systems and children’s hospitals — already know: social media platforms are hijacking the minds of our young people. In March’s landmark decisions that…
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The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget released April 3 proposes a $15.8 billion cut to HHS, while requesting $1.5 trillion for defense, a 44% increase. The budget would dramatically reshape federal spending priorities across healthcare and national security. It…
Access to care has always been a stated priority in healthcare. What’s different now is that health system executives are treating it as an engineering problem that requires structural redesign, not just additional capacity. An ambitious version of that redesign…
Two in 3 healthcare executives are considering leaving their organizations. The figure comes from a fall 2025 survey from executive search firm B.E. Smith of 703 healthcare executives, a majority of whom worked in hospitals or health systems. In total,…
Healthcare executives have been at the center of a lot of controversy recently. As a result, we’ve also seen mob mentality and public outrage escalate into violent rhetoric. Following the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the New York Police…
Atlanta-based Grady Health System shared in mid-March that its president and CEO John Haupert will retire at the end of 2026, after 35 years in healthcare and 15 with Grady. Prior to joining Grady, Mr. Haupert served as COO of…