Leadership

The American Medical Association yesterday named as its president-elect Patrice Harris, M.D., a psychiatrist from Atlanta and the first African-American to hold the office.
Also in this weekly roundup of nurse news: executive moves in the field.
Three leaders participated in the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust’s training on ways adaptive leadership can change static clinical/leadership dynamics and transform organizations.
Hospital and health system leaders are invited to apply for the AHA’s Health Care System Transformation Fellowship.
The Missouri Hospital Association will receive the 2018 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, AHA announced today.
In this oral history, King reminisces about lessons learned in the process of integrating organizations after building a new satellite hospital or acquiring existing facilities.
The Government Accountability Office today appointed five new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and reappointed one current member.
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership is accepting nominations through June 8 for the 2018 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award.
Robert L. Harman, who served for more than four decades as CEO at Grant Memorial Hospital, held the record for the longest tenure with one hospital of any hospital CEO in the nation at the time of his retirement in 2011.
Edward J. Connors, who served as president of Mercy Health Services in Farmington Hills, MI, from 1976 to 1993, died last Thursday. He was 89.