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.

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Exercise over booze: Radiologists’ top 5 coping mechanisms to deal with burnout

Imaging physicians who are feeling worn out or depressed on the job prefer to hit the gym (most often in a Toyota) rather than a bottle or joint, according to a new survey.

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Radiologists gift $150,000 toward hospital system’s new emergency room

University Radiology is donating the funds to Hackensack Meridian Health and its foundation, which will go toward construction of a $39 million new ED in Old Bridge, New Jersey. 

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CEO of radiology provider Envision Healthcare exits as Congress scrutinizes firm’s surprise billing practices

The Nashville-based physician group first announced President and CEO Chris Holden’s departure on Feb. 5. 

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‘Burnout’ is no longer enough; radiology and other specialties suffering ‘moral injury’

Oftentimes, clinicians know what their patients need, but the bureaucracy of healthcare and its drive toward profit can prevent them from doing so, experts say. 

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Radiology Political Action Committee watching presidential primaries ‘very closely’

Democratic contests kicked off on Feb. 3 in Iowa, with balloting to follow later this month in New Hampshire and Nevada.

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Radiology-related companies score high marks for LGBTQ corporate equality

A record 686 corporations made the Human Rights Campaign's 2020 Corporate Equality Index, including several big names in imaging. 

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Strategic Radiology adds 70-year-old North Carolina imaging practice

Gaston Radiology is the 28th provider to join with the Palmetto, Florida-headquartered coalition, adding 18 physicians into its fold. 

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Focusing on the ‘small things’ will cure what ails radiology, expert says

Revitalizing the specialty will require humanism, compassion and empathy, writes Boston University School of Medicine's Priscilla Slanetz, MD.