Posted by Admin | 10:42 AM

Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...

Labels: academic freedom, accountability, boards of trustees, executive compensation, free speech, New York University, transparency

Posted by Admin | 10:56 AM

In the US, we have been engaged in an experiment involving handing over an ever increasing proportion of direct patient care to for-profit c...

Labels: adverse effects, boards of trustees, conflicts of interest, fraud, Harden Healthcare, hospices

Posted by Admin | 9:26 AM

A striking contrast between a large health care organization's historic mission and its current practices appeared in a series published...

Labels: boards of trustees, Carolinas HealthCare, executive compensation, mission-hostile management

Posted by Admin | 9:21 AM

We have often noted that stories about problems with the leadership and governance of health care tend to be anechoic . That is, they tend t...

Labels: anechoic effect, boards of trustees, conflicts of interest, Cooper Hospital/ UMC, news media

Posted by Admin | 9:18 AM

It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...

Labels: academic medical centers, boards of trustees, bribery, conflicts of interest, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, You heard it here first

Posted by Admin | 1:06 PM

The Indianapolis Star published the latest story about anti-gravity health care executive compensation .  The report emphasized how the lar...

Labels: boards of trustees, executive compensation, Hospitals, Indiana University, managers' coup d'etat

Posted by Admin | 2:57 PM

A new article in the Journal of Business Ethics suggested that the global financial crisis, or great recession, was primarily due to a funda...

Labels: boards of trustees, finance, leadership, Mismanagement, mission-hostile management, psychopaths