Insights on Healthcare Operations & Leadership
Essays on healthcare operations and leadership, written from inside the work. Myrtle Roy examines access, accountability, workforce performance, and the operational realities that determine whether a health system holds under pressure — drawing on more than two decades from the emergency department floor to multi-site regional leadership, and on the Anchor/Flounder framework that runs through all of it.
Indications That a Healthcare Organization Is Losing Control
Decline in healthcare organizations is gradual and visible — if you know where to look. Five warning signs that surface in communication and daily operations long before dashboards reflect them.
Why Most Healthcare Culture Initiatives Fail
Most healthcare culture initiatives are well-intentioned. Most of them don't work. Not because of poor effort — because of four execution failures that appear consistently across health systems.