As part of an ongoing series reviewing my first 100 hours as a CEO, I spent the first 45 to 60 hours assessing the current culture, operations, strategy and environment at my new hospital. My initial (and lasting) assessment: I’m working for a wonderful group of individuals–the employees, physicians, board, community, etc.
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Many of you know Paul Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Running a Hospital
Well, this is a good moment to revisit transparency. Earlier today, there was an article in the Boston Globe about the various problems that this transparency has surfaced: firings, wrong-side surgeries, and this past week, a maternal death.
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If you’ve been following Hospital Impact, you’ll be very familiar with the voice of Nick Jacobs. If not, let me give you a quick intro: He’s a middle school band teacher turned hospital CEO in an mining town that had no business surviving the loss of their mining industry. Some would even say that Jacobs [...]
For some reason, it seemed the depressives of London all decided to pick the same weekend to attempt to end it all. Even the nurses answering the blue call phones at the hospital commented on the number of overdoses and slit wrists that were coming in. There was one call that stood out, though. A [...]