Category: Leadership & Management

Paul Griner, MD, who served as CEO of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., for more than a decade, has died, according to a post on the University of Rochester Medical Center website.

While the commotion of a hospital and health system CEO role can make it difficult to keep one’s finger on the pulse of an organization, many leaders are taking a step back to authentically connect with their employees, so they feel not only seen, but …

Many people are familiar with impostor syndrome, particularly in psychological and social contexts. However, a new report released June 6 from organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry highlights the concept’s prevalence among CEOs in the U.S.

Much like his last name, Matthew Love, president and CEO of Nicklaus Children’s Health System in Miami, truly loves what he does. It’s this love that drives his goal for a simple yet large mission: ensuring healthcare access for all children. 

Throughout their careers, Laureen Driscoll, MSN, RN, and Kathy Tussey, DNP, RN, remained open to change and said yes more often than no, even to opportunities about which they were skeptical or knew would be a challenge. 

After the pandemic, most healthcare leaders experienced a “great resignation” as workers left for other service industries and ever since health systems have been dealing with a lack of skilled labor to backfill the vacancies.

Ann Lurie, a renowned philanthropist for which the Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital is named, has died at 79, the Chicago Tribune reported June 24.

In 2019, Michael Dowling began reaching out to peers at other leading health systems to garner support in collectively acknowledging and addressing gun violence as a public health crisis. Few were willing to sign on to such efforts. 

Pamela Stephenson, who served as CEO of Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital and as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, died June 17, according to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was 73. 

Todd Forkel, CEO of Altru Health System in Grand Forks, N.D., quite literally knows what it’s like to walk in his colleagues shoes, and it’s all because of a program called “Shadow Me, Todd.”