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The Washington, D.C.-based Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) named Sr. Mary Haddad its 10th president and CEO. Haddad is currently VP of sponsorship and mission services for CHA; she succeeds Carol Keehan, who announced last fall that she will retire in June 2019.

Hologic Inc. will showcase its growing breast surgery franchise, which includes products such as the new Trident HD specimen radiography system, LOCalizer™ wire-free guidance system and the BioZorb® marker, in Booth #103 at the 20th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) in Dallas from April 30 to May 5.

To say that hospital decision-makers are inundated with data is an understatement. Analytics are used to justify any change in thinking at every level of management, from purchasing to servicing to staffing and beyond. But any department head will also tell you that the value of that information only goes as far as the meaning you can extrapolate from it.

If you’re in a senior management or leadership role, there’s one thing you can do that sets all kinds of positive wheels in motion. But there’s a problem. Most people in leadership roles don’t want to do it. What is this powerful but oft-avoided task? Spend a day each month or so working in the front lines of your organization.