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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Publicly traded radiology provider Akumin lays off staff, cuts pay to survive crisis

The Plantation, Florida, corporation has also temporarily shuttered 17 of its freestanding imaging centers, while also working out new payment schedules with landlords and vendors. 

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Radiology Partners establishes employee relief fund that’s already raised nearly $1.8M

“RP One,” as the effort is called, is doling out grants to team members who are “experiencing significant financial hardship because of the COVID crisis.” 

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Radiology provider Envision launches daily wellness program to help stressed docs during pandemic

The Nashville-based firm—which leads a team of more than 900 radiologists—said its new program includes coaching, stress management, and expert-led video conference calls. 

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RSNA: Continued school and day care closures may have ‘substantial’ impact on radiology staffing

That’s according to new guidance, issued by the Radiological Society of North America Monday to help docs deal with returning to post-COVID normalcy. 

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ACR issues 7-step plan to get radiology practices back to business

More than a dozen doctors from all corners of the country contributed to the document, which represents the official position of the American College of Radiology. 

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RSNA still planning annual meeting in December, with 11,000 submissions already received

The 106th iteration of the meeting will kick off on Nov. 29 at the McCormick Place Convention Center, which is currently being operated as a 1,000-bed temporary hospital. 

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Imaging practice files class action lawsuit after insurer refuses to cover COVID-related losses

Alliance Radiology first filed suit against CNA Financial Corp. on April 29, saying it has lost business as leaders have looked to comply with state orders to postpone nonurgent imaging. 

More radiology conferences move online to keep attendees safe

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Radiology Business Management Association are the latest to opt for virtual gatherings in 2020. 

Around the web

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.