Category: Leadership & Management

Hospital leaders nationwide are urging lawmakers to reconsider a Republican-backed budget resolution that could significantly cut Medicaid funding, warning of serious consequences for patients and healthcare providers.  

1. Healthcare has a big supply and demand problem. Demand for healthcare continues to exceed the number of physicians, nurses and allied healthcare providers available in what is one of the most pressing math problems of our time.

Pfizer has appointed former Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, former director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, as its new chief medical officer, Bloomberg reported Feb. 24. 

Health systems often relinquish too much responsibility and oversight in their partnerships, John Starcher, president and CEO of Bon Secours Mercy Health, told Becker’s.

Positivity in leadership, especially during crises, requires balancing optimism with realistic, strategic action. Positivity can be misunderstood as naivety, but when combined with execution, it becomes a powerful force for progress.

At least one federal healthcare program’s funding and some jobs have been reinstated following recent cuts at HHS, including the CDC, FDA and National Institutes of Health, according to reports from Reuters and The Hill.

Health system C-suites have started to plan ahead, looking at the five and 10 year horizons for strategic planning while staying nimble amid abrupt policy and technology changes. It can be a hard, but essential, balance to strike.

Russell Cox, president and CEO of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare, has spent more than four decades in healthcare, but it’s his earlier experience as a teacher that helped shape his leadership style and deep commitment to learning.

Innovation does not have to be a sweeping change implemented all at once — it can be achieved through smaller, intentional steps, David Banks wrote in a Feb. 19 LinkedIn post. 

When Bob Sehring joined Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare 23 years ago, the health system had five hospitals and 8,000 employees. Today, those numbers have grown to 17 and 26,000, respectively.