Category: Leadership & Management

Why RWJBarnabas is embracing triad leadership

A triad leadership model — which often unites a nurse, physician and quality or administrative leader — is gaining traction among health systems as they work to streamline operations and improve outcomes amid an increasingly complex healthcare env…

How UCSF Health works to create staff opportunities

San Francisco-based UCSF Health is a 1,290-bed system with multiple hospitals and annual revenue of more than $5 billion. How does CEO Suresh Gunasekaran maintain engagement and collaboration throughout the organization?

Texas hospital board president files defamation lawsuit

Wallace Dunn, president of the Odessa, Texas-based Ector County Hospital District Board, filed a defamation lawsuit Aug. 27 after HIPAA violation claims were made against him on social media.

Meet this Tennessee hospital's 1st female CEO

Lisa Lovelace became Cleveland, Tenn.-based Vitruvian Health-Bradley Medical Center’s first female CEO on Aug. 1, returning to her hometown and former workplace.

Opinion: Why We Must Learn from the Peak 65 Zone, Or Break American Healthcare

If 2024 is the year you turn 65, you’re not alone. Research suggests that 2024 marks the beginning of the “Peak 65 Zone,” with more Americans turning 65 this year than at any other time in history.

The peer-to-peer advice health system CEOs seek

When it comes to tackling hospital leadership challenges such as staffing, finances, regulatory issues and growing payer-space complexity, CEOs often rely on advice from peers and former CEOs. 

Missouri hospital board member resigns

Wanda Tatom has resigned from the board of Salem (Mo.) Memorial District Hospital, The Salem News reported.

Meet the leaders of Magnet's top hospitals

Only 11 U.S. hospitals have received the Magnet with Distinction recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center since the program began in 2022.

The CNO who staff call 'a nurses' nurse'

As chief nursing officer of Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Christy Grabus makes it a point to be as accessible as possible to front-line nursing staff. 

From caddie to orderly to CEO: Brian Erling's leadership journey

Brian Erling, MD, has served as president and CEO of Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health since November 2022, and he brings a physician perspective to the role.