According to one COO, the challenge of recruiting and retaining hospital employees goes beyond the emergency room and other clinical areas buckling under the current nursing shortage.
Leadership & Management
In November, Florida medical boards passed a ban prohibiting physicians from providing gender-affirming care to patients under 18. The rule has not gone into effect yet, but some hospitals are already cutting services, the Tampa Bay Times reported Feb. 15.
Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, has honorably retired from his volunteer role as reserve assistant sheriff with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, according to a Feb. 16 news release shared with Becker's.
Rob Allen began serving as president and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health Dec. 1, and he brought his previous experience with the 33-hospital organization to the role.
Though the pandemic's most imminent threats have waned, heightened patient volumes, workforce shortages, inflation and supply chain disruptions are still urgent issues for hospitals — and these challenges are even more significant for rural facilities, according to Joanne Conroy, MD,…
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Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore received a presidential award for its Blue Dot Human Trafficking Initiative.
During this time of rapid change, healthcare organizations have experienced a crisis of consumer loyalty.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth will end their Centura Health joint venture, with each health system directly managing their respective care sites in Colorado and western Kansas that comprise Centura Health.
"Chief business innovation officer" isn't a title you hear every day. But Catherine Corbin — who is pioneering the role at Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — is an architect by trade. She's used to building things from…
Less than 15 percent of board members overseeing the nation's top hospitals have a professional background in healthcare, while more than half have a background in finance or business services, according to a study published Feb. 8 in the Journal…