Category: Leadership & Management

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.

Barely half of physicians have a lot or a great deal of trust that their organization’s leaders are honest and transparent, according to one new survey. 

When Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, attended his first American Medical Association meeting in 2001 as a medical student, he couldn’t shake the feeling that as a gay man in medicine his options in the profession might be limited.

For all the literature, studies and allegories that circulate in the business world about teams — and what makes great ones — one obvious factor often goes unsung: how long they’ve been together. 

Physicians are not happy, and the American Medical Association is focused on changing that. In 2022, only 22.4 percent of physicians said they were “professionally fulfilled,” according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

As CEO exits continue to climb, some hospitals and health systems are looking internally to fill the roles they leave behind. But in a C-suite full of talent, who is best poised to take the helm?