Northwell Health serves patients, employees and visitors beef short ribs, wild flounder filets, and bread from a critically acclaimed bakery. It serves everyone a reminder that deficiencies can become delights. 

Gig Harbor, Wash.-based St. Anthony Hospital has donated emergency backpacks containing tourniquets, medical equipment and medical gauze to every teacher in a local school district, NBC affiliate King5 reported Oct. 27. 

As regional health systems grow and need to become more nimble, the top leadership are looking for ways to decentralize decision-making and build a strong executive talent pipeline.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has added around 10 hospitals over the last decade, and is now working on changing its model to a more portfolio-centric approach.

U.S. hospitals have seen 126 CEO exits through October of this year, a 62 percent increase from the 78 reported in the same time period in 2022.

As the move toward value-based care intensifies, many health systems are caught between equally critical priorities: accelerating adoption of value-based care models while creating holistic programs to improve community health. At NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health (NS-EEH), a data-based approach to value empowers the health system to fundamentally improve population health faster by developing targeted interventions that matter.

It's lonely at the top. Unaddressed isolation and burnout could be contributing to healthcare's high turnover rates, one health system CEO told Becker's. 

About a year after retiring as the CEO of Providence, R.I.-based Care New England Health System, James Fanale, MD, is sharing his story of a stage 4 cancer diagnosis and the power of empathy in medicine, The Boston Globe reported Nov. 13. 

In recent months, multiple health systems have named executives who already lead a region or facility to a second, dual role within the enterprise. 

The journey to becoming a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in anesthesia is a demanding and transformative one. However, one aspect of this rigorous educational path that often goes unnoticed is the near monthly onboarding process required for clinical rotations, and the repetition of nearly identical Learning Module Systems (LMS) associated with that onboarding. It's a challenge that warrants attention and reform.

Rod Hochman, MD, advocated for more in-person collaboration in a recent interview snippet published to LinkedIn. 

Health information technology CPSI has named Vinay Bassi CFO, effective Jan. 1. 

The U.S. healthcare system's transition to value-based care might be slowed by current financial conditions, according to an October 2023 report published in NEJM Catalyst. 

The Oregon Health Authority has a new leader after Gov. Tina Kotek appointed Sejal Hathi, MD, to the post, according to multiple reports.

CEOs are becoming increasingly candid about environmental pressures putting their organizations — and the healthcare industry as whole — in unforgiving situations. 

More health system leaders have joined a coalition to address gun violence. 

Monica Bertagnolli, MD, is the new director of the National Institutes of Health. 

Infusion centers report a 15% increase year-over-year in higher nurse-to-patient ratios and 13% increase year-over-year in longer patient wait times as a result of staff shortages

The role with origins in politics and the military has made its way into some large health systems, and can be clouded with obscurity given its variability and intensity.

Saint Peter's Healthcare System in New Brunswick, N.J., was six years ahead of the C-suite streamlining curve.