CEO confidence improved slightly in the third quarter of 2026, with more than half of CEOs planning annual raises of 3% to 3.9%, according to an Aug. 6 report from The Conference Board. Here are seven things to know: 1.…
Inside a year of rapid, system-wide adoption at the Veterans Health Administration. The Veterans Health Administration is not built for speed. It is built for scale. It serves roughly 9 million enrolled veterans in a model that follows each one…
The next major constraint on healthcare innovation may not be a staffing problem, funding problem or footprint problem. It very well may be an ampere problem. Across the United States, health systems are racing toward AI-enabled care just as the…
Becker’s Healthcare is hosting five webinars over the next two weeks covering the gaps in oncology care between appointments, medication purchasing as a revenue lever, consumer-facing artificial intelligence, scalable revenue cycle models and outpatient joint replacement programs. Oncology’s persistent blind…
Most healthcare leaders genuinely want to invest in their people. They say they value leader development, and they mean it. We all know what happens next: Budgets tighten, priorities shift, and development is the first line item to get cut.…
St. Louis-based Ascension’s transformation journey following the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic has included strategic divestitures, market exits, a $2.66 billion financial turnaround, and its $3.9 billion acquisition of Amsurg in early June. With the deal closure, Ascension has become…
Five years after opening, Penn Medicine’s Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs remains one of the most ambitious hospital builds in the country — a $1.6 billion, 1.5 million-square-foot facility with 504 patient rooms and 47 operating rooms. In a recent…
When New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health moved into Westchester County in 2016, acquiring two hospitals and two medical groups, it absorbed them into the same centralized operating model that governed everything else. What the system learned from that experience…
U.S. companies across industries are turning to retired CEOs to lead turnarounds, The Wall Street Journal reported July 28. Will health systems take a page out of their book? To an extent, they already have — though the practice looks…
Billings (Mont.) Clinic-Logan Health does not measure its growth in acquisitions. Over several decades, the system has built 25 affiliate relationships across Montana, most without taking ownership of another organization. Clint Seger, MD, the system’s CEO, describes the operating philosophy…
