Strategy

Today’s healthcare leaders are facing a host of vexing challenges — often at the same time. Recent Becker’s Healthcare reporting has highlighted crises across staffing — especially among nurses and in specialties like anesthesia and pediatrics — clinician burnout; patient…

Healthcare leaders have moved past the question of whether AI, pharmacy intelligence and operational analytics can create value. The harder question now is how to embed these tools into daily operations in ways that improve outcomes, reduce friction and scale…

Health systems are expanding into Florida and other Sun Belt markets, chasing population growth and the patients who have relocated there. At the same time, a growing share of wealthy retirees are anchoring themselves to health systems by purchasing second…

Hospital and health system CEOs are expected to balance growth, access, finances and operations. In 2026, they must also weigh new technology investments, including AI. As AI adoption accelerates, the relationship between CEOs and CIOs has never mattered more. How…

The 2025 compensation budget at Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health had accounted for $11 million. However, after the system’s chief human resources officer made the case for more, President and CEO E.J. Kuiper approved nearly five times that. The impetus…

Cleveland Clinic has expanded its international patient services network into El Salvador, adding local representation in a market where it previously did not have an in-country presence. Nuria Sabater will serve as a liaison between patients in El Salvador and…

Healthcare leaders are making generational decisions  about rural care delivery, financial resilience, primary care economics, AI governance and patient safety. Organizations are testing models, piloting frameworks and reshaping operations under pressure every day. Below are five resources from Becker’s Healthcare…

Brian DeFeo, vice president of financial operations at West Islip, N.Y.-based Good Samaritan University Hospital, has flagged “one of the biggest misconceptions in healthcare finance”: the path to improved margins is not through cutting expenses, but by improving operations. Good…

Ukraine’s first new-build hospital since Russia’s full-scale invasion opened May 24 in the western city of Brody. Behind its clinical readiness was New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health. Northwell Health partnered with the nonprofit Sunflower Network to help shape Project…

Cassandra Davis, MS, was appointed COO of Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., effective June 15, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Ms. Davis, who joined ECMC in 2008, most recently served as senior vice president of…