Over the past decade, healthcare organizations have increasingly adopted high-reliability organization principles to improve patient safety. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, defines HROs as organizations that operate…

Great hospitals bring excellence to every encounter, for every patient, in every specialty, at every level of care, wielding an uncompromising commitment to safety and a culture of nonstop growth. Becker’s is proud to release its “Great Hospitals in America”…

The health system CEO job description is getting longer, and increasingly filled with responsibilities that barely registered five years ago. Today’s CEOs are expected to steer AI strategy, prepare for cyberattacks, shape culture, advocate in statehouses and on Capitol Hill,…

HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., is seeking leaders for numerous C-suite roles within the organization. With 189 hospitals and about 2,600 ambulatory sites of care in 19 states and the United Kingdom, HCA is seeking…

Orlando (Fla.) Health-Health Central Hospital’s four female leaders have a long history of working together at Orlando Health, and now, for the first time, they are leading the system’s community hospital based in Ocoee, Fla. Their diverse paths began in…

The prevailing debate over HR-1’s Rural Health Transformation Program has centered on what the program won’t deliver. Some rural leaders have raised questions about whether the $50 billion initiative will reach the providers it was designed to support; separate concerns…

President Donald Trump has nominated Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, a White House domestic policy aide, as FDA commissioner. President Trump shared the announcement in an Aug. 19 Truth Social post. “Dr. Heidi will work with Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz…

Kristy Carrington, BSN, RN, becomes chief executive of Providence’s North Division on Aug. 24, bringing lessons from her early career as an ICU nurse that she said continue to shape how she leads.  Ms. Carrington succeeds Kevin Brooks, who is…

Recently, I had a cardiac ablation at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for my paroxysmal atrial fibrillation – the kind of specialty care that many assume requires a trip to a major urban medical center. The new…

In healthcare, we are trained to move quickly, solve problems and make decisions. Over time, those habits become second nature, shaping the instincts we rely on when the stakes are high. But I’ve learned that leadership isn’t always about moving…