Leadership
For more than two centuries, our nation’s hospitals and health systems have faithfully provided our citizens with the best possible care. With courage, tremendous skill and compassion, America’s caregivers work tirelessly to heal, comfort, alleviate pain and save lives.
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Artificial intelligence can empower employees, not take their jobs, writes Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Sentara Healthcare names hospital president; and St. Joseph’s Health names chief operating officer.
Lawrence “Lorry” J. Massa, who had a 40-year career in health care, including leading the Minnesota Hospital Association as president and CEO for nearly 11 years until his retirement in September, died Nov. 22. He was 65.
Tomorrow’s health care leaders can get a big boost from a new AHA program designed to develop and accelerate their ability to successfully lead America’s hospitals and health systems into the next decade and beyond.
Dennis Barry, an influential health care leader and former chairman of the AHA Board of Trustees, died Nov. 21. He was 80.
Thank you for everything you do — throughout the entire year — to advance health in America.
Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Institute of Medicine report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.”
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership last night presented its 2019 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Rodney Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Renton, Wash.,-based Providence St. Joseph Health and chair-elect designate of the AHA Board of Trustees.