Leadership

Watch the video below to learn more about her background, key priorities and what she is most excited about for her year as AHA chair.
On behalf of the AHA Board of Trustees and our team, thank you for everything you do to advance health in America.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., names new president; and St. David's South Austin (Texas) Medical Center appoints COO.
For more than two centuries, our nation鈥檚 hospitals and health systems have faithfully provided our citizens with the best possible care. With courage, tremendous skill and compassion, America鈥檚 caregivers work tirelessly to heal, comfort, alleviate pain and save lives.
Your voice matters. Make sure they know where you 鈥 and your community 鈥 stand. 
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鈥檚 Health names chief operating officer.
Lawrence 鈥淟orry鈥 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鈥檚 health care leaders can get a big boost from a new AHA program designed to develop and accelerate their ability to successfully lead America鈥檚 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.