National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the country, plans on Nov. 15 to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for president in the Democratic primary election, The New York Times reports.
Leadership & Management
Perhaps somewhat paradoxically, for healthcare leaders, creating a "patients-first" ecosystem starts by putting team members first, according to John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital.
Chuck Stokes, former president and CEO of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System, detailed the health system's 11-year journey to becoming a high reliability health system at the Becker's Hospital Review CEO + CFO Roundtable Nov. 12 in Chicago.
On Veterans Day, we honor and pay tribute to this important population of men and women who have selflessly sacrificed for our freedom.
A panel of three hospital and health system CEOs discussed strategies to stay competitive against disruptive forces in the healthcare industry Nov. 11 at the Becker's Hospital Review CEO + CFO Roundtable in Chicago.
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Stanford Health Care CEO David Entwistle learned "small gestures," such as bedside explanations and care updates, were what made "a world of difference" during his time as a patient in the intensive care unit.
Dignity Health, the San Francisco-based half of the newly merged CommonSpirit Health, will no longer put its name on a Broadway Sacramento (Calif.) theater after patrons threatened to boycott productions over the health system sponsorship, The Sacramento Bee reports.
Global business leaders' confidence is down more than 20 percent year over year, with the biggest drop in confidence recorded among CEOs in the U.S., according to an analysis from Worldcom Public Relations Group.
Among the many issues the healthcare industry is grappling with, some of those most pressing to hospital and health system executives are the need for economic revitalization, the diversification of care sites and the general opacity shrouding the future of…
At Renton, Wash.-based Providence, "there's nothing that is not changing," according to Mike Butler, the health system's president of strategy and operations.