Category: Leadership & Management

Healthcare CEOs must balance the business side of the organization with patient care, and physicians are especially skilled at handling that task, Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of Atlas Surgical Group, argues in an article published July 27 by Forbes. 

Unions are calling for the ouster of Bay Area Hospital’s elected board members. 

David Strong, vice president of revenue and CFO of Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo., died July 23 at the age of 60. 

Anthony Esposito, CEO of Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health, said his priority is “stabilizing” the system in the wake of its potential acquisition by Wilmington, Del.-based ChristinaCare Health System, the Delaware County Daily Times reported July 2…

For the first time, three women are leading LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Blacksburg, Va., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. 

The CEOs of UnityPoint Health-Sioux City (Iowa) and Medical Center Barbour in Eufaula, Ala., have exited their roles. 

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

UF Health Jacksonville (Fla.) paid tribute to former CEO Leon Haley Jr., MD, on July 24 on the one-year anniversary of his death.

In order to remove politics from healthcare, healthcare workers themselves have to be ready to get political, Kathryn Brandt, DO, chair of primary care at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, writes in a July 20 Fortune article.

The following executive moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker’s since July 15.