Leadership

A total of 17.7 million healthcare workers are potentially ineligible for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. 

According to Time magazine, the coronavirus pandemic has created “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.”

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth named former Cerner executive Don Bisbee its new president, the company announced June 11.

As a national medical group, Envision Healthcare "has a role to play" in fighting racial inequality and injustice, CEO Jim Rechtin said in a June 4 letter to team members.

Massachusetts healthcare providers experienced "pretty striking and totally unprecedented" employment changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said David Auerbach, PhD, research director for the state's Health Policy Commission, in an interview with The Lowell Sun.

Nashville Business Journal ranked the CEOs of public companies in the Nashville, Tenn., area based on 2019 compensation, and three healthcare executives were named among the top earners.

Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center's outpatient surgery facility is now an approved training site for Raymond, Miss.-based Hinds Community College, the Jackson-based practice announced June 11.

Patrick Conway, MD, announced on Twitter June 9 that he joined Optum as the company's CEO of Care Solutions.

A regional director for Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare is leading a healthcare coalition in support of former Florida Rep. Jason Brodeur's Senate bid, according to FLAPOL.

Tenet Florida Physician Services, a Boca Raton-based multispecialty physician group, has named Michael S. Davis CEO.