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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Pamela Woodard, MD, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

In specialty dominated by men, 2 female radiologists assume prominent leadership positions

The two hires come as radiology struggles to match other specialties in gender parity, with women holding only 17% of such roles.

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‘The physician workforce is vanishing’: State goes to desperate measures to recruit radiologists

The Physician Workforce Act aims to bolster recruitment of out-of-state physicians and accelerate licensure for international medical grads. 

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‘Healthcare administration, leadership and management’ to be recognized as new subspecialty in radiology

The designation will cover clinical medicine alongside different principles in health system science, the American Board of Medical Specialties announced. 

Linda A. Wilgus receives the 2023 Calhoun Award from the RBMA.

Radiology Business Management Association names annual award winners

Linda A. Wilgus took home RBMA's Calhoun Award, given each year since 1999 to recognize an individual’s “outstanding” contributions to the specialty.

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Ultrasound-maker Butterfly Network hires former telemedicine exec as new CEO at $875,000 base salary

Joseph M. DeVivo also is eligible for an annual bonus at 125% of that amount, along with a monthly housing allowance of nearly $17,000

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Female radiologists earn about 81% of what their male counterparts collect

Women also worked an average of 8% fewer days per year, which does not fully account for the gender pay gap, experts wrote recently.

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Radiology Partners added 500 physicians to its roster in 2022, now spans all 50 states

Meanwhile, credit analysts are issuing caution around the California-based practice’s aggressive, debt-fueled growth strategy. 

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UnitedHealthcare sues Radiology Partners, claiming it perpetrated scheme in ‘unscrupulous pursuit of profits’

Rad Partners countered, saying the claims are "without merit" and a smokescreen to take attention away from a contract dispute. 

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