Severe staff shortages, new COVID variants, and unpredictable surges are making it critical for hospitals to optimize inpatient capacity.
Category: Leadership & Management
Biden’s top science adviser, head of ‘Cancer Moonshot’ apologizes to staff for misconduct
After an internal White House investigation found that Eric Lander, PhD, bullied and demeaned colleagues, he issued an apology email to his staff, Politico reported Feb. 4.
Advocacy groups, organizations come out to support Dr. Robert Califf for FDA head
Despite President Joe Biden’s FDA commissioner pick, Robert Califf, MD, facing an uphill battle for approval in the Senate, several advocacy groups and organizations have endorsed him. This is on top of the six former commissioners who already voiced t…
5 hospitals seeking CEOs
Below are five hospitals that posted job listings seeking CEOs during the past week.
Children’s Hospital Colorado’s 1st mental health-in-chief on the now or never moment facing the US
Last May, Children’s Hospital Colorado declared a state of emergency in pediatric mental health after seeing its emergency department and inpatient units “overrun with kids attempting suicide” and suffering from other mental health conditions. As part …
Former Texas hospital CEO Louis LeBouef dies at 69
Louis “Lynn” LeBouef, former CEO of Tomball (Texas) Regional Medical Center, died Jan. 25 at the age of 69.
Hospital CEOs’ No. 1 concern is staffing for 1st time in 17 years
Hospital CEOs ranked personnel shortages as their No. 1 concern in 2021. Financial challenges, which consistently held the top spot since 2004, were listed the second-most pressing concern in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey…
Atlantic Health System welcomes new chief marketing officer
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System has announced Eric Steinberger as its new chief marketing officer.
New Saint Vincent Hospital CNO strives for fresh start after nearly 10-month strike
The new chief nursing officer of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is taking a “clean slate” approach in the wake of a strike that lasted more than 300 days and became the longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history, according to the …
White House joins Spotify COVID-19 misinformation debate
The White House has chimed in on the controversy surrounding misinformation online as hundreds of healthcare experts wrote Spotify to ask it to take action regarding COVID-19 disinformation on the platform, The Washington Post reported Feb. 2.
