Leadership & Management

Sandy Ewald serves as Patient Service Area President of Greater Green Bay, Manitowoc & Marinette for AdvocateAurora Health.

Doug Watson serves as Chief Financial Officer for Dignity Health - Arizona. 

Marilynn Weber serves as Chief Financial Officer and President of Finance for Northwest Permanente Physicians & Surgeons.

Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, sent a memo to his staff Sept. 3 to address Labor Day protests employees held in five cities amid threats of a potential nationwide strike.  

The White House is drafting a package of bills on gun control after seven more people died in a mass shooting in Texas over the weekend, CNN reports.  

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is reconsidering its decision to end renewals of medical deferred action status, which allows immigrants with serious and life-threatening illnesses to legally stay in the U.S. while they receive medical treatment.

A dozen physicians turned down positions with the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu after it switched to a new employment contractor, according to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

The Eureka Springs (Ark.) Hospital Commission is considering axing its management contract with Shreveport, La.-based Allegiance Health Management after a string of issues were left unaddressed at the 12-bed hospital, according to Arkansas Business. 

Questions still remain after Redfield, S.D.-based Community Memorial Hospital's board and CEO were ousted by the city's council in August, according to Keloland News.

The American College of Emergency Physicians' longtime director Dean Wilkerson is retiring July 31, 2020, the organization said Sept. 3.