Category: Leadership & Management

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. 

California plans to invest $4.7 billion to increase access to mental health and substance use services for individuals 25 and younger.

The following executive moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker’s since Aug. 12.

Ten medical organizations have come out in support of the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Idaho that opposes the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Raymond Damadian, MD, who built the first MRI scanner more than forty years ago, died Aug. 3, The New York Times reported Aug. 17. He was 86. 

Two attorneys and one retired U.S. district judge have been elected to Scripps Health’s 17-member board of trustees.

The following moves by women to a hospital or health system CEO role have been reported by or shared with Becker’s this year:

Amid decreased employee motivation and mounting global and local stressors, healthcare leaders should focus on actions, not just words, to keep their workers inspired, according to an Aug. 17 Harvard Business Review article.