Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

Survival on the rise among high-risk pulmonary embolism patients.

Movers & Shakers: CEO changes across Fox Chase, Gonzales, Ottumwa Regional, VCU Health

Check out this week’s Movers & Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry.

November 7, 2022

JPMorgan ventures into healthcare with new capital team

The new venture capital team will be focusing on novel therapeutics and technologies in several specialties.

November 1, 2022
Interventional cardiologist Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, has been named the new director of Mount Sinai Heart in New York City. He succeeds Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, who held the position since 2006 and will now serve in a more advisory role as Mount Sinai Heart’s president.

Interventional cardiologist Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, named new director of Mount Sinai Heart

Bhatt succeeds Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, who has held the position since 2006 and will now serve in a more advisory role at Mount Sinai Heart.

October 31, 2022

Cleveland Clinic to help like-minded hospitals boost quality, improve outcomes

Cleveland Clinic experts will work with hospitals and health systems “to ensure the highest standards of patient care delivery, enhancing operational efficiencies and supporting the professional development and education of clinical and non-clinical staff."

October 31, 2022
The American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society issued a joint statement soon after CMS published its final rule for the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The groups warned that the final rule could threaten patient access to high-quality care. Medicare cuts may harm patient care.

These states are struggling the most to find primary care physicians

Among primary care physicians, there is a huge unmet need in certain parts of the country, according to a recent ranking from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

October 27, 2022
A gavel and a stethoscope

Alabama doctor loses license after being charged with human trafficking

Janaki Earla, MD, was arrested on charges of human trafficking. He is an internist at Wellness Medical Center in Trussville, Alabama. 

October 26, 2022

HCA Healthcare slashes contract labor to cut costs

One of the nation’s largest health systems is shoring up its expenses by cutting back on contract labor amid growing financial challenges. 

 

October 25, 2022

Medtronic to split patient monitoring and respiratory interventions businesses

Medtronic says the spinoff is an opportunity to better position both entities and create value.

October 24, 2022

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The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

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