Category: Leadership & Management

HHS names 1st chief competition officer

On Jan. 8, HHS appointed Stacy Sanders to serve as its inaugural chief competition officer. The newly created role is part of the Biden administration’s larger efforts to lower healthcare and drug costs.

The patient feedback that's stuck with UNC Health's Jeff Lindsay

Days after starting his new role as president and COO of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, Jeff Lindsay is already seeing the good around him. 

How Nicklaus Children's CEO collaborates with adult health systems

Strategic discussions that hospitals and health systems have been having over the past few years — coupled with the easing of economic headwinds faced in 2022 — led to a 27% increase to 75 announced merger and acquisitions in 2023, according to a repor…

What 2 health system CEOs are optimistic about in 2024

Two health system CEOs recently shared with Becker’s what they are most optimistic about in the new year, from adjusting to long-term changes to addressing maternal mortality: 

Healthcare awareness calendar: Key months, weeks and days in 2024

Here are the days, weeks and months set aside to raise awareness or recognize healthcare conditions and workers.

The 'small things' will transform healthcare, says Swedish Health Services CEO

Elizabeth Wako, MD, began her career in healthcare as a bedside nurse for behavioral health patients. What she learned during those days has shaped her leadership style as she became a physician, administrator and, in November, president and CEO of Swe…

5 ways MSU Health Care aims to bolster primary care in 2024

Ass the nation faces a growing deficit of primary care physicians, Michael Weiner, DO, isn’t deterred. 

Idaho hospital board member resigns

Joel Cleary, MD, has resigned from the board of trustees for Grangeville, Idaho-based Syringa Hospital & Clinics.

1st nurse who was elected to Congress dies

Eddie Bernice Johnson, the first nurse to be elected to Congress, died Dec. 29, 2023, at 88 years old.

San Diego hospitals disavow residents' Gaza cease-fire letter

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and UC San Diego are distancing themselves from a letter from pediatric residents calling for a cease-fire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Dec. 29.