The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has subpoenaed HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, on alleged political interference at the CDC throughout the pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Leadership & Management
A newly elected member of the Antelope Valley Healthcare District in Lancaster, Calif., must step down because he holds two public offices that are incompatible, the city of Lancaster and its mayor said.
Healthcare organizations and their front-line clinical workforce have absorbed the brunt of the pandemic and the emotional toll of witnessing the deaths of hundreds of thousands who could not have loved ones present.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2020-21 hospital honor roll list earlier this year. Here are the the chief medical officers leading the nation's top 15 hospitals and health systems:
How much investment in healthcare facilities is too much? Is the healthcare system capable of handling a pandemic on its own? Are there opportunities to make decisions as part of a larger ecosystem where competitors become collaborators? Are there strategies…
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This is a guide intended for hospital leaders to prioritize the work activities of their facilities staff in response to COVID-19. With recent CDC guidelines stating that “airborne transmission from person-to-person (of coronavirus) over long distances is unlikely,” developing expensive or complex pressure-gradient…
Hospital executives face a predicament. How can they improve inpatient capacity today while planning for a future in which demand for inpatient services is expected to decline? Industry forecasts before COVID-19 already predicted lower demand for inpatient services. Following the…
The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, S.C., was one of 16 hospitals to receive a failing grade from the Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2020 Safety Grades. The hospital's interim CEO Kirk Wilson says ratings from the Leapfrog Group are…
Challenging circumstances posed by the pandemic make it more important than ever for hospitals to focus on financial health.
The American Hospital Association has created a senior leader position to oversee its health equity and inclusion strategies and appointed Joy Lewis, its vice president for strategic health planning, to fill it.