Category: Leadership & Management

As health systems face financial challenges, some are turning focus to the top — finding places to cut, combine or redesign positions on their leadership teams. Others are sticking to the status quo. 

SSM Health, a 23-hospital health system based in St. Louis, is rolling out a newly aligned leadership structure in Wisconsin.

Precise diagnoses and actionable treatment plans are essential when it comes to one’s health. In healthcare, we often find ourselves at odds with both for one condition: burnout.

Krista Curell, RN, may be new to the role of chief operating officer, but she’s no stranger to the University of Chicago Health System. She’s been with the organization for more than two decades — most recently serving as its chief integration and tran…

Hospital and health system boards must play an active role in addressing rising violence against healthcare workers, the American Hospital Association said in an Aug. 21 boardroom brief.

The Hawaii State Hospital, a publicly funded, state psychiatric hospital in Kaneohe, is firing three top-level managers as part of a leadership restructure amid patient overcrowding and workforce shortages, local media outlets reported over the weekend.

Healthcare is increasingly inundated with “middlemen, actors and sub-actors” — companies devoted to niche causes that promise to fill perceived gaps in the healthcare system, according to Sachin Jain, MD, president and CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health…

Hospitals and health systems are shaking up their C-suite and leadership structures as they focus on key areas to ensure long-term success.

Hospital and health system leaders work in an industry that has greatly evolved in recent years. But they are not looking back — opting instead to focus on key areas to ensure long-term success.

Sitting behind a desk all day — except when you are in seemingly never-ending meetings — is one way to make sure hospital leaders never see anything but a bird’s-eye view of their operations. Failure to connect with your team is not only one way to gua…