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Cleveland Clinic realized it wanted to expand access to weekend appointments and that there was genuine patient demand for it. When the system surveyed approximately 13,000 patients regarding what time periods worked best for them, what locations made sense and…

UCI Health’s journey as an organization began decades ago as the University of California regents discussed the need for a new hospital. Questions lingered, such as where the hospital would be, before ultimately deciding on a new campus in Irvine…

Jonathan W. Curtright, MBA, MHA, stepped into the president and CEO role at Oklahoma City-based OU Health on July 1, bringing more than three decades of healthcare leadership experience and an insider’s perspective after helping lead the academic health system’s…

The U.S. labor force participation rate in June fell to its lowest level in 50 years, outside of the pandemic. What does that mean for the healthcare workforce? The labor force participation rate — the share of people 16 and…

Amid industrywide uncertainty, health system CEOs are not shelving their five-year plans. They are reprioritizing them. At the start of 2026, 1 in 3 U.S. health system leaders told Deloitte they were uncertain about the year ahead, up from just…

Rural health systems are contending with eroding margins, persistent workforce shortages and shrinking access as service lines close. CMS’ $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program offers a rare chance to redesign care delivery rather than simply stabilize it —…

An aging, higher-acuity population is colliding with contracting insurance coverage, care redesign, new therapies and competition from disruptors — and the net effect is care leaving the hospital faster than raw population math alone would indicate.

There is no single road to health system CEO anymore.  Transplant surgeons, human resources executives and emergency medicine physicians who spent years in the private sector are all finding their way to the corner office. Boards that once largely defaulted…

Every healthcare AI vendor talks about accuracy as if it were one thing. If it can pass a medical exam, then it must be right for your health system. Right?  Not necessarily. There’s a reason the growth of administrators in…

American hospitals are under extraordinary pressure: margins remain thin, workforce shortages persist, emergency department boarding continues to frustrate patients and clinicians alike, and many organizations are struggling simply to maintain financial stability. Hospital leaders often attribute these challenges to forces…