Category: Leadership & Management

Partnering with other health systems entails flexibility and alignment, Julie Freischlag, MD, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, N.C., told Becker’s.

The sources from which leaders in academic medicine draw motivation might not be considered typical, Mount Sinai Health System CEO Brendan Carr, MD, told Becker’s.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took the stage Oct. 1 for the only vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. 

Shane Strum brings a range of healthcare experience and now finds himself in a unique position: serving as the CEO of one health system while also acting as the interim CEO of another.

“She just landed from overseas this morning,” Carrie Herzke, MD, chief medical officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said, referring to her chief nursing officer counterpart, Deborah Baker, DNP.  “I was probably the second person she text…

Over a year ago, Cincinnati-based UC Health adopted a site leadership model where each of its two acute-care hospitals is led by a registered nurse. This shift, according to Rob Wiehe, the former chief administrative officer of University of Cincinnati…

A chess grandmaster once said that the most powerful advantage in the game is simply to be ready with the next move. The same is true in healthcare, especially when you think about competition in local markets.

Retiring hospital and health system CEOs have recently stressed the importance of succession planning in conversations with Becker’s.

Nick Johnson has resigned from the Weston County (Wyo.) Hospital District’s board, which oversees the management and operations of the hospital in Newcastle, Wyo., and other healthcare services provided in the area.

The most successful healthcare leaders in the next two years will leave the traditional organizational structures and models in the past in favor of extreme nimbleness, stronger soft skills and optimization of digital technology.