The top priorities for healthcare CEOs

The top priorities for healthcare CEOs
Modern Healthcare; 8/9/24
What's the top priority in the second half? What's the biggest challenge? ... Modern Healthcare reporters posed those two questions to CEOs in all corners of the industry to see where healthcare is headed in the coming months. [Selected responses from 13 CEOs include:]

• We're growing state-by-state, which means doing the right things to invest and grow in those states while being really, really thoughtful about capital efficiency and the bottom line... The biggest challenge is the change in the insurance landscape around obesity. Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO, Knownwell
• We're implementing behavioral health services in our emergency department via telehealth. We are also going to be providing leadership training for all of our middle managers.. Staffing is the biggest challenge. Also, maintaining a positive operating margin is becoming a problem. Martin Fattig, CEO, Nemaha County Hospital
• We are fighting to expand the collective bargaining rights of nurses and other clinicians who work in the Veterans Health Administration... Nancy Hagans, president, National Nurses United
• A continuation of quality service delivery is our first priority. John Kao, founder and CEO, Alignment Health