Healthcare company governing bodies are falling behind on their own diversity, equity and inclusion goals and need to assess the effectiveness of board membership policies and recruitment strategies, according to report published Tuesday. Executive search firm WittKieffer and the Health Management Academy conducted a survey of executives and board members from 25 health systems, representing more than 400 hospitals, to assess governance trends and progress on previously stated goals...

Print Sam Hazen HCA Healthcare's CEO made almost $27 million in his first year at the helm of the country's second largest hospital provider by revenue. Sam Hazen assumed the Nashville-based company's highest role in January 2019 , taking over for R. Milton Johnson, who retired after five years as CEO...

LifePoint Health's board of directors is plowing ahead with a $120 million golden parachute plan for four top executives ahead of the company's sale, despite overwhelming opposition from shareholders.The board itself, which will disband when the deal goes through, is getting more than $11.3 million, not counting the company's chairman and CEO's take, as part of the sale.The payouts are raising eyebrows in the investment community given they total more than the company's 2017 net income. Analysts, attorneys and others who follow the industry say the ...

Though Athenahealth's board of directors is still considering the offer, the vendor offered some resistance in a statement Thursday. "We do not believe ...

... to give shareholders more control over how they operate, said Jefferies & Co. healthcare analyst Brian Tanquilut. Activist shareholders have cropped up demanding more of a say in company decisions, many of them acting on advice from proxy consulting firms that specialize in corporate governance .

Humana's board of directors has elected Dr. Karen DeSalvo, bringing the former national coordinator for health information technology on as its ...

Envision Healthcare shareholders are less than pleased with the $21.7 million in compensation that CEO Chris Holden pulled in 2016. They aired their displeasure at last week's Envision annual shareholder meeting by nearly defeating an advisory "Say on Pay" proxy proposal on executive compensation.Envision shareholders approved the Say on Pay by a narrow 52% to 48% margin.The vast majority of investor-owned companies have their Say on Pay approved by a wide margin, with three in four achieving better than 90% approval of the ...

By Dave Barkholz | August 6, 2016 Dr. Lynn Massingale, executive chairman of TeamHealth, and his board of directors had to make some tough strategic calls over the past nine months.Twice last autumn they rejected merger advances from rival AmSurg to create a giant in physician-staffing services at hospitals and post-acute-care facilities...

A New York hedge fund attempting to insert hospital CEO Nancy Schlichting and two other representatives into the board of directors of TeamHealth ...