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Leadership & Management

Health system C-suites have started to plan ahead, looking at the five and 10 year horizons for strategic planning while staying nimble amid abrupt policy and technology changes. It can be a hard, but essential, balance to strike.

Russell Cox, president and CEO of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare, has spent more than four decades in healthcare, but it's his earlier experience as a teacher that helped shape his leadership style and deep commitment to learning.

When Bob Sehring joined Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare 23 years ago, the health system had five hospitals and 8,000 employees. Today, those numbers have grown to 17 and 26,000, respectively.

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Ghazala Sharieff, MD, is chief medical and operations officer of San Diego-based Scripps Health — an unusual title that she says benefits the system.

David Reed, a longtime healthcare executive and former chairman of the American Hospital Association, died Jan. 16 at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to his obituary. He was 91.

From workforce shortages to financial sustainability and improving patient access, Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health is tackling some of the biggest challenges in healthcare.

The pace of change accelerated rapidly in healthcare over the last few years and isn't expected to slow any time soon. How should health system leaders think about growth while solving the problems of today?

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