Category: Leadership & Management

From finding tools to empower providers to embracing cutting-edge digital innovations, David Herman, MD, CEO of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, is looking to 2025 as a defining year to drive meaningful change in healthcare. 

Hospital workforces have undergone significant changes since the pandemic hit and organizations need strong talent pipelines for future growth. Los Angeles-based Keck Medical Center of USC, under the guidance of CEO Marty Sargeant, designed an innovati…

Warren Hern, former co-CEO of Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health has died. 

Former President Jimmy Carter’s healthcare legacy — though marked by political defeats — laid the groundwork for modern policy approaches to address rising costs, a policy expert wrote in a Dec. 29 op-ed published in Time.

Healthcare’s future isn’t shaped by sweeping policy changes or shiny new tech alone — it’s in the choices and priorities of the leaders running the systems today. 

This year, hospital and health system leaders shared insights with Becker’s on their approaches to — and struggles with — using PTO.

Health system executives spent the last few years building financial stability after the pandemic and adjusting to workforce shifts. Those areas will remain important in 2025, but a new obsession for C-suite executives is emerging. Or, more accurately,…

There was no shortage of notable C-suite transitions in 2024. 

Women in healthcare leadership roles across the U.S. drove significant improvements within their organizations in 2024. From reducing patient length of stay to boosting employee engagement, these leaders achieved measurable growth through percentage ch…

Barclay Berdan became CEO of Arlington-based Texas Health Resources in 2014 and over the last decade has built a strong culture with an eye toward growth.