Leadership

As a politically practical matter, we need to focus on finding consensus to improve the system we have rather than subject the nation to yet another polarizing debate on health care. 
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: North Country Healthcare, Littleton, N.H., names CEO; and South County Health, Wakefield, R.I., selects CEO.
Harney District Hospital, Burns, Ore., is one of many hospitals nationwide that have embraced the Lean mentality, modeled after Toyota’s discipline of lean manufacturing in the 1950s to ensure high quality products. At AHA’s 2019 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, attendees learned how rural…
Dennis Pullin, president and CEO of Virtua Health in Marlton, N.J., will serve as 2019 chair of the AHA's Section for Metropolitan Hospitals.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Sutter Health names first chief population officer, and Cache Valley Hospital names chief medical officer.
AHA’s Association for Community Health Improvement’s annual conference is a chance for health care leaders to shape population health and equity initiatives from the ground up.
In recent years, Airbnb, Uber and Netflix have changed the way we vacation, hail a ride and watch movies. These innovative companies are market disruptors – with business models grounded in experimentation to offer consumers a better experience.  
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: LCMC Health, New Orleans, names market CEO, and Steward Health Care, Dallas, selects president of Utah region.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Mercy Hospital in Minnesota names CEO, and Sutter Delta Medical Center in California selects CEO.
Only 16 percent of business leaders responding to a recent Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey said that their company has been very or extremely effective in its innovation attempts to date. And while the survey wasn't targeted specifically to health care, it illustrates the…