Category: Leadership & Management

'Everything cannot be accomplished all at once': Garnet Health CEO on how prioritizing goals can help reduce burnout

The term “burnout,” as it relates to clinicians, has become part of the lexicon in hospitals. Why are nurses leaving? They are burned out in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why are fewer doctors pursuing emergency specialties? Again, according to a …

Care New England workers vote 'no confidence' in hospital leadership

Members of SEIU District 1199 New England at Care New England’s Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., have voted “no confidence” in their employer.

Lawmakers grill TikTok CEO over data collection: 4 healthcare takeaways

On March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress regarding the app’s data collection practices. The interaction was hardly amicable. 

For hospital leaders, cultivating strong relationships is an 'investment in the future'

Hospital executives are always focused on managing looming issues at hand and often their presentation at the next meeting on their calendars. Success, in all areas of leadership, is tied not only to tangible actions but to soft skills, as well.

How can hospital leaders help clinicians 'recapture the joy' of medicine?

The U.S. healthcare marketplace is facing a list of challenges that, on some days, might seem insurmountable. 

Gun violence is a public health threat, Tower Health hospital CEO tells lawmakers

Charles Barbera, MD, president and CEO of Tower Health’s Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pa., told state lawmakers that unlike progress made in cancer treatments, motor vehicle safety and heart disease, the U.S. is “losing the ground to gun violence….

Why this CEO filmed his colonoscopy

Most people wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to film their colonoscopy, but Georges Leconte, CEO of New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, is an exception. 

Healthcare is a 'team sport;' leaders must be in it to win it, says 1 Missouri hospital leader

When you watch a game on television, it may look like the coaches are pacing up and down the field — on the sidelines. However, the coach is always the point person — the one players are looking to for advice and ultimate decisive action. 

'Hire for attitude, train for skills,' says 1 COO on taking hospital teams to the next level

If you’ve made your way to the C-suite in a hospital, it might be easy to think you simply need to focus on being the best leader you can be right now. And, while that’s certainly true, effective leadership requires a willingness to keep learning and g…

MetroHealth names new board chair

The board of trustees for Cleveland-based MetroHealth System has a new chairman four months after welcoming a new CEO and recovering from an alleged scandal involving its former chief executive.