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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NYU Langone opens $170M outpatient radiology hub in former Sears store

The 260,000-square-foot ambulatory care center features 30 other clinical specialties including cardiology, pediatrics and pulmonology, and will treat 400,000 patients annually. 

Radiology residents and fellows unionize in ‘landslide’ election

Physicians at Chicago-based McGaw Medical Center are working over 80 hours per week while collecting inadequate compensation, organizers said.

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Lower shift volumes lead to significantly fewer errors for neuroradiologists

When case volumes climb to 67-90 studies, error rates were 226% higher than those tackling 19 or fewer cases during their shift, experts reported. 

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S&P plans to reclassify Radiology Partners’ debt as ‘distressed’

The agency downgraded certain notes to “CC,” indicating the obligations are “highly vulnerable” to nonpayment, with default “expected to be a virtual certainty.”

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Radiology community mourns the loss of Bruce Hillman, MD

The Journal of the American College of Radiology founding editor and former University of Virginia radiology chair died on Jan. 9 at the age of 76. 

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Hospital to decommission its nuclear medicine department due to lack of use

“We’re getting less and less referrals, and that number is dropping,” Anthony Mitarotondo, MD, director of Stony Brook Radiology, said during a recent public hearing. 

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Radiologist to collect $4.6M jury verdict in whistleblower case against former practice

Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Consulting Radiologists Ltd. allegedly terminated senior staffer Brent Bullis, MD, after he raised patient safety concerns. 

Radiology departments that serve racial minorities, low-income patients less likely to receive NIH funding

A total of 75 radiology departments received National Institutes of Health funding between 2017-2021, ranging from $195,000 to nearly $217.9 million. 

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.