Becker's Hospital Review

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP 45 Johns Hopkins Hospital names physician-in-chief By Elizabeth Gregerson B altimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has named Nadia Hansel, MD, physician-in-chief of e Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has also been appointed director of the Department of Medicine, making her the first woman to hold that position in the department's 131-year history. Dr. Hansel, a pulmonary and critical care physician, is also the William Osler Professor of Medicine, according to a Sept. 12 news release from the health system. She previously served as director of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the hospital and as associate dean of research at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. n Female CEO appointments nearly double in 10 years By Kristin Kuchno Appointments of female CEOs have nearly doubled in the past 10 years, according to a recent Crist Kolder Associates report. e report measured C-suite executive turnover from Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies and contains data through Aug. 1. Of the 671 companies studied, 10.1% were in healthcare. Of the organizations studied, 9.4% had female CEOs in 2024. is is compared to 4.9% of the companies in 2014. e percentage of organizations with women as CEOs has increased each year since 2019, from 6.1% then to 8.5% in 2023. Among the healthcare organizations studied, there was one female CEO appointment in 2014 and five in 2024, according to the report. e consumer industry had the most appointments, with eight in 2014 and 14 in 2024. When looking at the executive teams as a whole, there are more female executive leaders than ever, according to a September report from LinkedIn that used data from its 1 billion worldwide profiles. It found that 38.5% of executives in 2023 were women, compared to 34.8% in 2018. Although the healthcare sector has the fewest women serving as CEOs among the other industries studied in the Crist Kolder report, in one 2021 study, women were found to have made up 15.3% of health system CEOs. Becker's also recently has reported on notable CEO appointments among women at hospitals and health systems. Lisa Lovelace was named the first female CEO of Vitruvian Health- Bradley Medical Center in Cleveland, Tenn. in August. Beth Walker also made history at her facility as the first female CEO of Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans. n Kaleida COO takes on interim president role at subsidiary By Kristin Kuchno C heryl Klass, BSN, RN, executive vice president and COO at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, has been appointed to a new interim leadership role. Ms. Klass was named interim president of Olean, N.Y.-based Upper Allegheny Health System, according to a Sept. 3 news release from Kaleida Health, its parent organization. The two organizations began searching for a new president in April after its former president, Jill Owns, MD, resigned to return to private medical practice. Ms. Klass will lead as interim president until a new president has been selected, which is expected to occur by the end of the year, the release said. Ms. Klass joined Kaleida Health in 2004 as president of what was then the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo. In November, she shared plans to retire from the organization after the first quarter of 2024, once her successor as COO was selected and in place. n Ochsner Health names hospital's 1st woman CEO By Kristin Kuchno B eth Walker, who has served as CEO of Ochsner Baptist in New Orleans since 2019, has been appointed CEO of Ochsner Health's flagship facility. Ms. Walker was named CEO of Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans, effective Sept. 23, according to a system news release shared with Becker's. She began her career at Ochsner Medical Center in 2002 and later became COO of ambulatory clinics in 2013. Ms. Walker is the hospital's first woman CEO, the release said. Ochsner Health is a 46-hospital system with more than 370 health and urgent care centers. n

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