Leadership & Management

A nurse from Hamilton, Ohio-based Bethesda Butler Hospital was placed on administrative leave for reportedly posting hateful and derogatory statements about gay men and transgender people on Facebook, according to The New York Daily News. 

Democratic presidential candidates campaigning on "Medicare for All" have yet to release a blueprint for funding the single-payer plan, which is estimated to cost $30 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health will cut more than 30 positions at two California hospitals, according to the Ventura County Star.

Three Democratic senators sent a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Oct. 23 seeking information on the agency's progress in recouping at least $341,000 of money improperly spent by former Secretary Tom Price, MD.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, a former representative for Texas, released a plan Oct. 24 to address the opioid epidemic with $250 billion in total funding over 25 years for education and recovery efforts, according to The Hill.

Changing and improving the lives of children motivates veteran healthcare leader Paul King each day, making him the perfect fit for his role as president and CEO of Stanford Children's Health and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, based in Palo…

Erlanger Health System's decision to lay off managers will ultimately benefit system operations, its new CEO told its board of directors, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health said staffing changes the health system is making at Pottstown (Pa.) Hospital and Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia will affect 60 jobs.

Thomas McIntyre was fired as vice president of communications of the Iowa Hospital Association after making a Facebook post critical of Gov. Kim Reynolds' handling of Medicaid in the state, the Des Moines Register reported.

In a congressional hearing Oct. 23 called "Sabotage: The Trump Administration's Attack on Health Care," CMS Administrator Seema Verma evaded questions about what would happen if the ACA is overturned, CBS News reports.