Category: Leadership & Management

The first thing you do when your hospital is deemed best in the nation: feel the affirmation, the verification, the pride. The second thing you do: get back to work. 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s decision to partner with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center caught the executives of its current affiliate, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, off guard, The Boston Globe reported Sept. 15.

Since May, Kevin Jenkins has served as CEO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s Utah market and CEO of Holy Cross Hospital-Salt Lake. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, one of the largest for-profit healthcare systems in the country, said Sept. 13 it is appointing Ronald Burgess Jr. to its board of directors.

CEO personality is correlated to company culture, but what works for one organization may not serve another, defying the notion of a universal chief executive archetype.

Eighty-five percent is the new 100 percent, or so a number of business and work-life leaders posit, marking a shift that carries extra meaning in an industry with perfectionist tendencies like healthcare. 

Tiffany Murdock, DNP, MSN, has a well-rounded background in healthcare, starting her career as a nurse tech. In the nearly 20 years since, she’s served in numerous leadership roles, including as the first female CEO of Singing River Health System in Oc…

West Virginia may have one of the least healthy populations in the U.S., and there has to be much more focus on preventive health initiatives as a result, Albert Wright, CEO of Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine, told Becker’s in a recent interview.

Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, sees a bright future for the health system despite a recently halted merger with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services.

When looking to fill top leadership posts, more health systems are turning to nurses and physicians.