Plano, Texas-based Kaye/Bassman International merged its ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital recruiting practice with its hospital and nursing leadership division, the firm announced Feb. 6. Managing Partner Drew Wyatt, who leads hospital and nursing leadership recruiting, will align with…
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As talk around technology and AI in healthcare continues to fill the minds of many leaders, Juan Guzman, vice president and COO of Wellstar MCG Health in Augusta, Ga., is focused on two forces he said will define the industry’s…
The operating room has always demanded precision — and now that same precision is being applied to the workforce that makes surgical care possible. Across the country, perioperative leaders are moving away from static, fixed staffing models toward dynamic, data-driven…
The conversation around AI in healthcare is moving fast — but not evenly. A growing segment of utilization management and revenue cycle leaders has already moved past the adoption question, into harder territory: how to scale what’s working, prove its…
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz is revamping leadership roles at the agency, a spokesperson told Bloomberg May 23. Rebekah Armstrong has been named CMS’ new chief of staff, according to the report. She most recently led the agency’s Office of Legislation.…
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When Congress packaged $50 billion for rural healthcare inside HR 1, it offered a number large enough to generate headlines and excitement. But the distribution of funds, planned over five years, has raised questions. The Rural Health Transformation Program arrived…
Amid mounting financial pressures, workforce shortages and rapid technological change, healthcare leaders are turning their attention toward building the next generation of leadership now, not later. “There’s going to be a lot of change no matter what,” Greg Damron, CFO…
Hospital and health system leaders are no longer treating disruption as episodic; it is the operating environment — layered, overlapping, and largely outside any single system’s control. During an April 13 executive roundtable hosted by Vituity at Becker’s Hospital Review…
Women in healthcare leadership continue to navigate contradictory expectations — decisive but accommodating, authoritative but approachable. The tactics for cutting through those expectations are shifting from vague advice about leaning in toward concrete organizational practices around clarity, sponsorship, environment and…
When Michael Kupferman, MD, became CEO of Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health in late June 2025, he brought a special background that not all health system executives have: decades of work as a physician. Dr. Kupferman completed his residency in…