Category: Leadership & Management

Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System named Babur Lateef, MD, chair of its health system board. 

Although life sciences companies are strong draws for female candidates, healthcare still risks losing top talent to tech, according to the “Women in Business 2022” report from accounting firm Grant Thornton. 

Led by Louisiana, states with strict anti-abortion laws are attempting to require physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, Bloomberg Law reported Aug. 23. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health launched the first of four new mobile medicine units Aug. 22, according to a post on the website of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers.

Below are five hospitals that recently posted job listings seeking CEOs.

The year 2021 saw a record number of Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies with female CFOs at 15 percent, Fortune reported Aug. 22. 

Anthony Fauci, MD, said Aug. 22 that he will step down from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December. 

Amid a rise in violence against healthcare workers, Phillip Kambic, president and CEO of Kankakee, Ill.-based Riverside Healthcare, is speaking out in support of a violence-free workplace and calling for civility from the public.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Physicians Pavilion will be renamed the James J. Barba Physicians Pavilion in honor of the hospital’s president emeritus. 

William Rukeyser, former board of directors chair at Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center, died Aug. 16.