One of the most pressing issues in healthcare strategic leadership research is identifying
which hospital chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics possess a significant and …

Abstract While the Affordable Care Act made substantial progress to increase access to
healthcare, over 27 million nonelderly adults remained uninsured in 2018. These patients …

Background: Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals
operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial …

Facing the escalating cost and unsatisfying quality of care, the Accountable Care
Organization model was designed to as a remedy for the fragmented US healthcare system …

Background In 2011, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has
introduced a bundled payment reform along with a Quality Incentive Program (QIP) to bring …

Purpose Over 100 rural hospitals have closed in the US since 2010. Continuous pressures
on the rural health care delivery system suggest that the trajectory of closures will continue …

In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the public mental health system in the
New York City area mounted the largest mental health disaster response in history. I was …

The first protocol for the use of lung ultrasound to quantitatively and reproducibly assess the
degree of lung involvement in patients suspected of having COVID-19 infection has been …

Emergency department (ED) frequent users are those patients who make four or more ED
visits in a 12-month period. Their impact on healthcare costs and ED capacity is substantial …

Health market evolution necessitates continuous reevaluation of initiatives, competitive
regulations, and antitrust policies. The complexity of health care markets and competition …