Leadership & Management

Better work-life balance was selected as the most important factor in health systems’ efforts to retain leaders, according to a May 26 Becker’s LinkedIn poll. Of the 547 respondents, 38% pointed to better work-life balance, followed by improved workplace culture…

The future of health IT is being shaped by women who are completing the essential work of making healthcare smarter, faster and more effective. They are untangling administrative complexity, eliminating inefficiencies, standardizing workflows and implementing innovative measures that impact entire…

The role of the health system CFO has evolved far beyond traditional number crunching, managing budgets, overseeing audits and reporting quarterly results. Today’s top CFOs are increasingly expected to challenge assumptions, influence enterprise strategy and, at times, tell CEOs what…

Chris Bjornberg is managing a complex merger as CEO of Imperial Valley Healthcare District in Calexico, Calif., where two hospitals serving roughly 187,000 people are in the late stages of consolidation after decades of competition. But that hasn’t distracted from…

Some of the most exceptional care in the country is delivered close to home, in the community hospitals that serve as trusted anchors for neighborhoods, towns and regions across America. Becker’s is proud to release the 2026 edition of its…

Health systems are navigating a moment that resists the old playbooks — with federal budget pressure, AI adoption, workforce strain and shifting reimbursement all intensifying at once. For many executive teams, the response has reached beyond strategy into something more…

Peter Banko wrote a book about firing people. He will be the first to tell you it isn’t really about that. The subject that drove the president and CEO of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health to sit down in 2024 and…

Healthcare executives are running out of traditional options. Annual gap-closure initiatives measured in hundreds of millions have become the norm, not the exception. Cost inflation continues to outpace reimbursement, margins remain compressed and the playbook that worked a decade ago…

As healthcare systems race to modernize the patient experience, one truth has emerged across the industry: excellent digital care is not about the technology itself, but about what it enables. Becker’s asked dozens of healthcare leaders and executives — from…

When Richard Lofgren, MD, joined Oklahoma City-based OU Health as its inaugural president and CEO in 2022, the health system had recently launched as Oklahoma’s only comprehensive academic health system, bringing together the former OU Medicine hospitals, clinics and physician…