Leadership
One thing that we all know is certain is change. Hospitals and health systems are adapting delivery models and strategies to remain viable for their communities. As more and more baby boomers retire, health care is undergoing a major demographic shift that is reshaping insurance coverage,…
Henry Ford Health System, a five-hospital system in the Detroit area, routinely earns one of the top spots on DiversityInc.’s Top 12 Hospitals and Health Systems, an annual ranking of health care organizations that are committed to diversity. To make the cut, the 30,000-employee system is…
Hospitals don't serve just their patients. They also serve their communities.
That’s why many hospital leaders are making committed efforts to have their leadership teams reflect the diversity of the populations they serve.
In our cover story starting on Page 8, writer Lola Butcher…
When Shafiq Rab agreed to become chief information officer and senior vice president of Rush University Medical Center late last year, the Chicago hospital snagged a leader in the use of mobile health care technology to engage patients.
Equity of care
By Lee Ann Jarousse, Senior Editor, H&HN
The following is a summation of Douglas W. Hubbard's remarks at GE's "Strategies for Success in the U.S. Health Care Market," by H&HN editors who attended the event.
By Lee Ann Jarousse, Senior Editor, H&HN
The following is a summation of Jeff DeGraff's remarks at GE’s “Strategies for Success in the U.S. Health Care Market,” by H&HN editors who attended the event.
When I was younger, I swore I’d never work in higher education. After college, I went to…
One of the outgrowths of transformational change in health care has been a significantly expanded workload for CEOs. Everything important seems to flow through the chief executive, who is expected to steer the ship while scanning the horizon for threats and opportunities. He or she is responsible…
Uncertainty is the new normal for rural hospitals. Finding ways to see through that uncertainty and move forward successfully brought trustees and executives to the American Hospital Association’s Rural Health Care Leadership Conference last month.
Policy and governance were the themes at…
On her first day of work in September at Florida’s Memorial Hospital Miramar, Grisel Fernandez-Bravo, R.N., was given a hospital ID badge displaying her new title: chief executive officer. But Fernandez-Bravo felt that something was missing. So she attached a badge buddy that says “Nurse…