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The State of the CEO
The days of the “hospital administrator” are gone. In an industry of sweeping change, today’s hospital chief executive officers must be prepared to take risks, accept new strategic roles, and not merely manage, but...

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Building Better Bylaws
Increasing hospital-physician disputes and shifting Joint Commission regulations are bumping medical staff bylaws higher on many CEOs’ priority lists.
Students with No Teachers
Suddenly a CEO
Watch Those Wipeouts
Five Minute Consult
Making the Marriage Work
Some hospitals and tech vendors are pushing the boundaries of their business relationships.
Behind the Wires
Wired Patients
Reporter's Desktop
DEAL!
Stronger Together
A malpractice crisis provides the impetus for the creation of a powerful group practice in Pennsylvania.
The Risky Get Riskier
Back from the Brink
Armchair Finance
Money Talk

Mission Possible

Mission statements are often mocked for being uselessly generic. Random mission statement generators (really) can spit out any combination of "trust" and "teamwork" and "patient needs." Yet many real mission statements adopted by hospitals and healthcare systems are seriously specific, with careful and clear thought given to who should be served, how they should be served, and how management and the medical staff should work together toward those ends.

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