Category: Leadership & Management

There are pros and cons to hiring a younger CEO, but at one major company, the risks might be worth the reward. 

Nurses are calling on Hennepin County Board of Commissioners to take back oversight of Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center from Hennepin Healthcare System, citing working conditions they say have not improved, according to the Star Tribune.

Madera, Calif.-based Valley Children’s Healthcare is providing its president and CEO, Todd Suntrapak, with 24-hour security following criticism of its compensation for top hospital executives. 

Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth said the company is continuing its mission to secure provider status for its pharmacists during a March 28 Walgreens’ earning call for the second quarter of 2024. 

Throughout the downfall of Steward Healthcare, its founder and CEO — Ralph de la Torre, MD — has remained quiet. The Boston Globe spoke with nearly 50 people who knew him, and painted the picture of a complicated person.  

Hospitals reported 15 CEO changes last month, marking a 36% increase from January.

Amid an uptick in abrupt CEO exits, some hospital leaders are drawing out their departures. 

Sandral Hullett, MD, former CEO of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., has died, according to The Birmingham Times.

Researchers have argued that there is no perfect CEO personality, and leaders of hospitals and health systems possess an array of qualities and strengths, ranging from softer skills such as honesty and openness to financial and technical knowledge. How…

The chief of Hospital Sisters Health System, which shuttered two Wisconsin hospitals on March 22, has opened up about the “difficult and heartbreaking” decision.