Nearly 100 letters of nomination were received for this year’s Trustee of the Year competition, co-sponsored by healthcare executive search firm Wiff/Kieffer. Nominations were accepted from early October until the end of November 2006. Again this...
Healthcare lobbyists for more than a dozen interest groups, some of which have battled on opposite sides in the past, found common ground last week in their near-unanimous opposition to the White House’s proposed fiscal 2008 healthcare budget.
Congress should investigate what steps federal drug programs are taking to ensure price accuracy and transparency and limit the potential for abuse, an official from the Government Accountability Office testified late last week. Oversight...
Healthcare lobbyists for more than a dozen interest groups, some of which have battled on opposite sides in the past, found common ground last week in their near-unanimous opposition to the White House’s proposed fiscal 2008 healthcare budget.
From the so-called Greenspan Commission in the ’80s to the Kerry-Danforth and Thomas-Breaux commissions in the ’90s, official Washington has shown an affinity to push off onto large-scale groups the difficult task to revamp the political hot potato...
Triad Hospitals, like HCA, its former parent company, is headed toward private ownership after a $6.4 billion leveraged buyout was announced last week, and it may be the last such deal for a while.
The Internal Revenue Service cast its attention on the governing boards of tax-exempt organizations, distributing guidelines earlier this month that contained no real surprises but nevertheless confirmed the notion that not-for-profit boards are...
A new partnership of business, labor and public policy organizations seeking universal healthcare coverage by 2012 is attracting some criticism for wanting to scrap the current system of care without proposing a viable alternative.
Ascension Health’s possible arrival in Massachusetts may have won the blessing of Boston’s archbishop, but it raised questions elsewhere about the giant hospital operator’s potential ownership of a major healthcare provider in the city.
During the opening reception at the National Patient Safety Foundation’s annual conference in San Francisco last May, patient-safety pioneer Lucian Leape was holding court and talking about how electronic health records could be used to...
Nearly 100 letters of nomination were received for this year’s Trustee of the Year competition, co-sponsored by healthcare executive search firm Wiff/Kieffer. Nominations were accepted from early October until the end of November 2006. Again this...
Turning to the insight he gained as the chairman of not-for-profit boards of trustees, William Schubart III steered 434-bed Fletcher Allen Health Care to an open and accountable decisionmaking process—the antithesis of a secretive style that had led...
Dad always said, ‘If you want to belong to something and you want to see it grow and improve, you have to participate,’ ” recalls William Tate III. Tate has certainly acted on his commitment to the community. He joined the board of 104-bed Hancock...
Administrators at Kadlec Health System in Richland, Wash., rely on William Moffitt’s integrity. Moffitt joined the boards of both the Kadlec system and Kadlec Medical Center in 1999, becoming chairman of both boards in 2002. “He has been a...
Dennis Ochs led the turnaround of a dysfunctional board of trustees at Logan Medical Center in Guthrie, Okla., into a smooth, professional operation. And he did it in just one year. Ochs “knows how to pull people together and include people,” says...
It is misleading to say the president’s proposed fiscal 2008 budget vaporized on impact on Capitol Hill. For sure, his healthcare cuts will not be carried out as envisioned; Democrats certainly won’t go along with slashing children’s health...
Health reform is back on the agenda, and not a moment too soon. U.S. health financing is a costly mess that is putting more and more Americans and their employers at risk. Yet nothing guarantees that the burgeoning debate over healthcare will end...
I’m not surprised that both Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) blasted President Bush, because that is all they do all the time (“Rob hospitals to pay poor,” Jan. 29, p. 6). They never offer any constructive ideas, facts...
How many of us keep pursuing our dreams in life? So much of what we do is constrained by events, circumstances, etc. Far too many people lose sight of their original goals, the things they used to hope for. Life beats them down.
How do you ask someone for $400 million? If you’re asking South Dakota businessman T. Denny Sanford, you’ll probably make the pitch at his kitchen table. And you’d better have a very compelling cause.
