November/December 2022

Volume 37, Number 6
November/December 2022

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  • Cover Story

    Leadership for Intense Times

    Maggie Van Dyke

    As the healthcare field adjusts to what it has learned during the past few years, many leaders are assessing how their roles and the priorities of their organizations may have changed. 

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  • Web Extra

    How DEI Contributes to Effective Leadership

    Ed Finkle

    Ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion becomes part of a health system’s bloodstream—and not just a program or a box to check—is vital to effective leadership that ensures provider teams feel well cared for, want to stay, and perform at the top of their abilities, system leaders say.

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  • Perspectives

    The Reward of Giving Back

    Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE

    Among the most distinguishing characteristics of leaders is a tireless capacity to give of themselves. 

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  • Healthcare Management Ethics

    Building Capacity for Organizational Ethics

    Susan A. Reeves, EdD, RN

    The pandemic years have taught those of us who lead healthcare organizations several lessons. Some of them were learned the hard way such as the need for more flexible supply chains. 

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  • Operational Advancements

    Leading Through Disruption

    Casey Buckingham, Rayn Ginnaty, RN, and Kaci Husted 

    It’s 6:30 on a Tuesday evening one year into the pandemic as an exhausted Benefis Health System ICU nurse picks up dinner for his family on the way home from work following a nearly 13-hour shift. 

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  • Public Policy Update

    The Other Food Problem: Nutritional Health

    Paul H. Keckley, PhD

    In the U.S. health system and in policy circles, much attention has been given to food insecurity, and understandably so: In 2020, 10.5% of U.S. households, and 7.6% with children in the home, faced problems putting food on their dinner tables, according to a September 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. 

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