Leadership
CHICAGO (November 14, 2019) – Maryjane Wurth, the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO), will retire next year after a long and distinguished career in the hospital association field.
In this AHA blog, Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses key competencies of transformative heath care leaders and introduces the new AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship program.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Cleveland-based University Hospitals appoints hospital president; and Montefiore Medicine in New York selects CEO.
The AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development has chosen as its 2020 President-elect Jennifer Weiss Wilkerson.
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson, a renowned health care leader and champion for high-quality, affordable health care, died in his sleep Nov. 10. He was 60.
Spencer Johnson, who led the Michigan Health & Hospital Association for more than 30 years and was a champion for hospitals and patients, died Nov. 7. He was 76.
Our nation’s freedom is safeguarded by our brave women and men in uniform, who willingly risk their lives for love of country and ask nothing in return except for the chance, when the time comes, to successfully return to civilian life.
Crain’s Chicago Business this week named Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, to its list of Notable Women in Health Care.
From all of us here at the AHA, thank you to every veteran who has defended our country … and our freedom.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Centura Health appoints hospital CEO; and FirstHealth of the Carolinas names hospital president.