Category: Leadership & Management

Using an Innovative Approach to Address Critical Staffing Challenges in Operating Rooms

Reports from the front lines of hospital perioperative departments show a daily, ongoing crisis.

Viewpoint: 4 lessons America’s healthcare leaders need to learn

Throughout the pandemic, healthcare and science leaders have struggled to successfully communicate recommendations and guidance to the public. Richard Tofel, a visiting fellow at Boston-based Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, offers four lesson…

6 Black healthcare leaders share their role models

In honor of Black History Month, Becker’s asked Black healthcare leaders to share their role models and why they look up to them. 

Rebuilding the Nursing Talent Supply Chain — 4 insights

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Hospital CEO exits doubled in January

Twelve hospital CEOs exited their roles in January, double the number who stepped down from their positions in the same month a year earlier, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an executive outplacement and coaching firm. 

Medical staff target Washington hospital CEO, COO, attorney in no-confidence vote

Medical staff for Coupeville, Wash.-based WhidbeyHealth Medical Center took a no-confidence vote in CEO and CFO Ron Telles, COO Garth Miller, MD, and hospital attorney Jake Kempton, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. 

Pennsylvania health system lays off staff as CEO exits

Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health is cutting jobs and scaling back services as a possible sale of the four-hospital system looms, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Blue Cross CFO, former Nike exec join Providence board

Christina Fisher, executive vice president and CFO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and Eric Sprunk, former COO of Nike, are the newest members of the Providence board of directors, the Renton, Wash.-based health system said Feb. 8.

New York hospital taps nurse to direct ICU

Dansville, N.Y.-based Noyes Memorial Hospital has tapped Joanne Quait, RN, to direct its Holroyd Intensive Care Unit, according to a Feb. 7 news release obtained by Becker’s.

HHS issues new guidance to hospitals on pandemic-era disability rights

HHS has strengthened its protections on disability rights during public health emergencies by issuing new guidance for healthcare providers on the civil rights protections.