Category: Leadership & Management

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. 

Susan Salka, president and CEO of Coppell, Texas-based medical staffing firm AMN Healthcare, plans to retire by the end of 2022. 

Shereef Elnahal, MD, president and CEO of University Hospital in Newark, N.J., and former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health, is President Joe Biden’s pick for undersecretary for health for the Veterans Health Administration …

Facing opposition within their own party, Democratic leaders pulled $15.6 billion in emergency COVID-19 funding from a $1.5 trillion government funding package, The Hill reported March 9. 

James “Chip” DiPaula Jr. resigned March 9 as chairman of University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Diane Postler-Slattery, PhD, MSN, president and CEO of Midland-based MyMichigan Health, and her husband, Don, died in a plane crash in northwest Florida on March 8, according to the health system.