Category: Leadership & Management

For effective patient communication strategies that lead to improvement, hospitals must ensure communication is a two-way effort in which patients feel their input is heard and carefully considered.

Even as U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to dwindle, upticks in other parts of the world have spurred concern over the potential for another U.S. surge. 

Ashish Jha, MD, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, was tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as the next White House COVID-19 response coordinator.

A senate panel voted 20-2 to establish a bipartisan probe into the government’s response to COVID-19, The Washington Post reported March 15. 

Nearly 150 employees have left Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital since Plano, Texas-based Community Hospital Corp. took over management of the Gallup, N.M.-based hospital in 2020, according to KRQE. 

Each day, Claudia Fegan, MD, brings her passions about healthcare reform and social justice to her role as chief medical officer of one of the nation’s largest public safety-net systems.

Below are eight hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CEOs.

To improve health equity, hospitals have got to start from the inside to reassess their commitments to the cause, measure what works and look at the issue through a new lens, according to a group of Black health executives. 

The Advanced Care at Home Coalition and more than 100 healthcare organizations and health systems have penned a letter to lawmakers, urging them to pass legislation to extend waivers enacted during the pandemic allowing for hospital care at home.

The CVS Health board has shrunk to 11 members as David W. Dorman, the independent chair of the board of directors, and Tony L. White, director of the board, both retire, according to a March 10 news release.