Healthcare leaders offer perspective on topics and issues affecting the lives and health of Massachusetts residents.

08.31.2023  | Pediatrics, People, and the Pandemic: Dr. Kevin Churchwell's Executive Insights
Dr. Kevin Churchwell first started his relationship with Boston in the early 70's. It's where he spent the formative years of his medical education and where he started his family "We've...
08.31.2023  | MHA's Executive Insights Series Premiere: Dr. Eric Dickson
Dr. Eric Dickson didn’t start out planning to work in healthcare – he wanted to be a helicopter pilot. But when it turned out he was too tall for that program with the U.S. Army, Dickson instead…
08.31.2023  | MHA's Executive Insights Series: Lawrence General's Deb Wilson on Advancing a Community Through Care
Deb Wilson never imagined a career in healthcare when she started her career as a financial consultant, but all that changed when she was handed the Brigham and Women’s audit at Deloitte. In the time since…
08.31.2023  | MHA's Executive Insights Series: BMC's Kate Walsh on Leading with Purpose
Kate Walsh said her original career aspiration was to be Mayor of the City of Boston. That job was most recently held by Marty Walsh – no relation. “It must come with the ‘Walsh&rsquo…
08.31.2023  | Improving workplace safety in healthcare settings: A roadmap from Massachusetts
The following is a post from guest commentator Patricia M. Noga, PhD, RN, FAAN, vice president of clinical affairs at the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA). Workplace violence in healthcare…
08.31.2023  | Caring for the Caregiver: Task Force Report Released
    The following is a post from guest commentator Patricia M. Noga, PhD, RN, FAAN, vice president of clinical affairs at the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA).    
08.31.2023  | April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day 2021
On this 10th anniversary of National Healthcare Decisions Day, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association and our members urge individuals all across the commonwealth to take an active role in their care…
08.30.2023  | MHA's Executive Insights Series: Michael Dandorph Wrap-Up
In his role as President and CEO of Tufts Medicine (formerly Wellforce), Michael Dandorph has a tall task in front of him: uniting more than 15,000 employees around a common goal of integrating academic medicine…
04.11.2022  | MHA's Leading the Conversation Conference: Five Key Takeaways for DEI in Action
On March 31, MHA hosted our second annual Leading the Conversation Conference, which addressed the healthcare system’s crucial work to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)....
08.31.2023  | Executive Insights Webinar Series: A new system, a new normal
Dr. Kevin Tabb was raised in Berkeley, California, attended medical school in Israel, and eventually found his way to Boston ten years ago as the leader of a major academic medical center.   Dr. Tabb…
08.31.2023  | MHA's Executive Insights Series: Christine Schuster, RN, MBA on the Strength of Community Hospitals
Christine Schuster played a lot of sports growing up, including field hockey, basketball, and soccer. Today, she’s still a triple threat: a nurse, an MBA, and a hospital chief executive. But Schuster will…
08.30.2023  | A Special Holiday Video Message from MHA
2020 wasn't the year any of us would have expected. But we are stronger for it, we are more united because of it, and our commitment to our patients has never been deeper. Here's what we'll remember.
08.30.2023  | MHA's Annual Women's Conference focuses on wellbeing
  Hundreds of female healthcare leaders from across Massachusetts gathered virtually to attend MHA’s Annual Women Leaders in Healthcare Conference, Leadership Redefined. The program featured…
08.30.2023  | Six Massachusetts hospital leaders speak out in new MHA Voices in Healthcare video
09.29.2016  | Why healthcare is Voting NO on Question 4
Massachusetts voters will consider an initiative to legalize the commercial sale of marijuana in November of 2016. After studying this issue and consulting with a variety of experts and clinical leaders…
09.19.2016  | MHA's Name Changes as Delivery System Evolves
After 80 years representing hospitals throughout the commonwealth – the Massachusetts Hospital Association has changed its name to the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association. We arrived at the…
04.29.2016  | Massachusetts One Step Closer to Raising Tobacco Purchasing Age to 21 Statewide
The Massachusetts Senate just moved us one step closer to improved efforts to reduce tobacco use and nicotine addiction in the commonwealth. I commend Senate President Stan Rosenberg and the members of the Senate…
07.03.2015  | AG's Report Shines a Needed Light on Behavioral Health Problems
Attorney General Maura Healey's new report on the intersection of behavioral health services and healthcare reform makes important observations regarding Massachusetts' ongoing efforts to improve both…
05.05.2015  | Behavioral Health Parity: It's Time.
MHA is a longtime champion of behavioral health parity – treating mental health and substance abuse conditions on par with physical injuries and illnesses. This is not a new effort, but it sometimes…
09.05.2014  | Massachusetts hospitals help lead the way in slowing healthcare cost growth
This week's release of reports on both national and statewide healthcare expenditures paints a very clear picture of the success Massachusetts has had in reining in healthcare cost increases. Just-released…
03.06.2014  | Nurse staffing ratios: still a bad idea after all these years.
The latest event in the nurse staffing ratios and hospital margins/executive compensation ballot issue occurred Monday, when testimony on both proposed legislation and the union's ballot initiatives was heard by…