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Eighteen months into his tenure as president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, Mark Sevco has presided over a…
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When William “Bill” Robertson, CEO of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System, described how his organization grew into the largest community-based health system in the Pacific Northwest over 12 years, he credited three cultural principles. Among them is what he calls…
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is planning to expand its footprint and pediatric services across metro Atlanta as Patrick Frias, MD, officially assumes the CEO role. The system aims to put its pediatric services within 30 minutes of every family in…
Interoperability was supposed to connect healthcare, enable data sharing and allow organizations to derive value from their massive amounts of data. Yet in most health systems, data remains fragmented and, in many cases, unusable. Instead, health systems incur hidden costs…
Walmart employees enrolled in the company’s health plans can receive care for complex conditions at certain health systems across the country through the retailer’s Centers of Excellence program, which covers treatment, travel and lodging at no cost for most eligible…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals has retired an additional 400 policies in the year since it cut 2,812 systemwide policies. The reductions came through a structured review process that aimed to eliminate duplication, improve clarity and keep policies useful for front-line caregivers,…
Health systems face no shortage of strategy. What many are running low on is the capacity to execute it. That observation sits at the center of a conversation that Mandy Eaton, PhD, president and CEO of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health,…
Closing the Cancer Care Gap for Veterans
For many veterans who served, the risks of military life do not stop once they return home. Toxic exposures encountered during service like burn pits, contaminated water, chemical agents, and more can increase someone’s risk of cancer for years afterward.1…
Mandy Eaton, PhD, did not set out to become a health system CEO. She started in human resources, took on broader operational roles and said yes to opportunities that stretched her. About a year and a half in, she is…
AI is now embedded in everyday clinical work, helping physicians and nurses retrieve information faster and offload documentation. Recent Wolters Kluwer research found that 74% of physicians and 70% of nurses use generative AI weekly — yet 92% still say…
Health systems have fewer hospital CEOs in 2026 than they did a year ago, and the shift appears to be intentional. A comparison of Becker’s trackers in 2025 and 2026 of health system C-suite restructuring shows fewer hospitals have their…