Category: Leadership & Management

Joanne Berger-Sweeney, PhD, a neuroscientist, has been appointed chair of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare.

Becker’s is touching base with healthcare chief operating officers to illustrate what the job means to different health systems. Read more here. 

Michael Rao, PhD, president of Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health and the university system, should exit his post in the wake of a report criticizing leadership over a failed downtown medical office project, former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder told Richmond B…

San Diego County in California has about half the beds it needs to care for patients with mental illnesses. As a result, jails and prisons are picking up hospitals’ “slack,” according to Chris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health. 

The Biden administration announced June 16 that President Joe Biden will appoint Mandy Cohen, MD, former North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services secretary, director of the CDC.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital called the wrong family about a patient’s death, NBC Bay Area reported June 15. 

Quentin Whitwell, CEO of Thomasville (Ala.) Regional Medical Center, is making progress toward becoming its owner. 

Hospital and health system leaders have had to navigate various industry challenges in the last year, from financial pressures to workforce shortages. But they have also focused on making meaningful change for the future, and they are engaging employee…

Two terms that have struck a nerve with Becker’s audience in the past year are “imposter syndrome” and the “glass cliff.” 

David Afshar has resigned as CFO of home and hospice care company Aveanna Healthcare, the company said June 15.