Leadership

As I prepare to retire as president and CEO of Lee Health, I’ve spent a great deal of time reflecting on what leadership means — and what responsibility a leader has when it is time to step away. I’ve come…

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) began treating patient readiness as a capacity issue after seeing how late cancellations could delay care and leave valuable OR time unfilled despite a significant surgical backlog. The challenge was finding a way to…

Sanford Health’s latest expansion is pushing the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system into a new phase of growth: one that increasingly blends its deep rural footprint with a major urban presence. On Sept. 1, Sanford acquired North Memorial Health, a two-hospital…

As a football coach, Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at the University of Miami, but when he gave a keynote interview Sept. 15 at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle…

Melanie Burgess, vice president of perioperative services and executive director of the Center for Perioperative Medicine at University of Tennessee Medical Center (UT Medical Center), helps oversee surgical operations at a 740-bed Level I trauma center in Knoxville. The organization…

The 340B landscape continues to evolve. Regulatory and operational changes are making program management and administration more complex. Implementation of the IRA Maximum Fair Pricing (MFP) and upcoming HRSA 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program are creating an even more complicated…

HHS has selected four senior leaders for the FDA, including directors for the agency’s drug, biologics and tobacco centers and its first deputy commissioner focused on technology and artificial intelligence. Jared Seehafer was selected as the FDA’s first deputy commissioner…

Beth Cavanaugh, RN, MSN, director of clinical services at The START Center for Cancer Care, leads infusion center and clinic operations across the organization’s San Antonio locations. As patient volume grew, the independent oncology practice faced a familiar question: Did…

For decades, the COO’s job was straightforward: keep the trains running on time. Ask today’s COOs how the role has changed, and a different picture emerges. Operational excellence hasn’t gone away, but it’s no longer the ceiling of the job. …

Ask COOs and other strategic leaders which operational metric matters most right now, and the answers span a wide range: length of stay, patient throughput, transfer acceptance rates, facility utilization, workforce retention, access. But a common thread runs underneath: With…