BECKER'S
HOSPITAL REVIEW
September / 2026 Vol. 2026 No. 9
14th Annual
CEO + CFO ROUNDTABLE
November 2-5, 2026 // Hilton Chicago
SAVE THE DATE
EXECUTIVE
EXCLUSIVES:
Erik Wexler, President
and CEO, Providence
p. 6
Mitchell Rosner, MD,
CEO, UVA Health
p. 6
Barclay Berdan,
CEO, Texas Health
Resources
p. 7
Emily Moorhead,
President, Henry Ford
Macomb Hospital
p. 7
Tracy Peffley,
System VP, Revenue
Cycle Management,
Cleveland Clinic
p. 13
Tiffany Murdock,
DNP , Chief Nursing
Officer, Ochsner Health
p. 14
IN THIS ISSUE:
The partnership calculus
for 3 health system CEOs
p. 6
Why a hospital president
is turning rivals into
partners
p. 7
A hospital payment
lifeline faces a 2028
reckoning
p. 12
Ochsner's virtual nurses
cut readmissions. Its
CNO's next target: intern
training
p. 14
CIOs shrug off EHR
vendor leadership
changes
p. 20
The Human Capital
Ecosystemâ„¢: Why the
Organizations Getting
Retention Right Stopped
Guessing
p. 21
What drove Providence's
$400M turnaround
p. 12
CEOs size up site-neutral
pay amid tightening
financial picture
p. 22
Inside Cleveland Clinic's
revenue cycle AI literacy
program
p. 13
20 smart hospitals and health
systems
p. 9
The 1st IT
decisions CIOs
make after an
M&A deal
p. 19
The payer
policy problem
draining
hospital revenue
p. 22