Healthcare Executive Podcast

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Healthcare Executive Podcast is a health podcast hosted by American College of Healthcare Executives, with 139 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

American College of Healthcare Executives hosts Healthcare Executive Podcast, a health show with 139 episodes published.

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  Lessons in Community-Built Healthcare From Dr. Regina Benjamin, Former Surgeon General

  Aug 19, 202649 min

  Before Dr. Regina Benjamin became the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, she was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, rebuilding the clinic she founded after two hurricanes and a fire. In this episode, host Dr. Cheryl Pegus sits down with Dr. Benjamin for a conversation spanning the gritty realities of healthcare in a town of 2,500 people to time spent in boardrooms at Kaiser Permanente and Ascension. Dr. Benjamin shares what it takes to build rural healthcare from the ground up, from a $5 envelope that captures why she does this work to her conviction that education is healthcare's highest-leverage investment in prevention.

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  AI-Enabled Health Systems

  Aug 4, 202627 min

  Matthew Montoya, DrEng, researcher/faculty leader, The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, and David P. Rastall, DO, PhD, lead for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Armstrong Institute Center, The Johns Hopkins University, discuss why AI must be governed as a clinical process. You’ll learn the difference between deployment and engineering, why clinician behavior becomes part of the AI system and how to set ongoing monitoring and clinical metrics. Learn more about David P. Rastall, DO, PhD. Learn more about Matthew Montoya, DrEng.

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  Compassionate Leadership: A Conversation With Samuel Soltis, PhD, LFACHE

  Jul 31, 202634 min

  Samuel Soltis, PhD, LFACHE, retired deputy director of health services, South Carolina Department of Corrections, discusses his career in correctional healthcare. He shares practical leadership tactics, as well as how he worked to expand clinical services, recruit clinicians and improve patient dignity. This episode is brought to you by Med-Metrix.

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  Beyond the Numbers: How CFOs Turn Insight Into Action

  Jul 29, 2026—

  The healthcare CFO seat has changed. Margin pressure is no longer cyclical; it is a structural crisis driven by skyrocketing medical cost trends and aggressive payer denials. Today, finance leaders must look beyond traditional P&L to own strategy, technology and operating model design. Bridging the gap between financial oversight and health system survival, Ensemble SVP of Finance, Matt Ennen, sits down with former HCA Healthcare CFO, Bill Rutherford, for a candid conversation built for CEOs, CFOs and COOs. Two finance leaders, two vantage points, one through line: the operators pulling ahead are the ones treating execution as a system, not a slide. Learn what's changed, what's broken and the one move to make in the next 90 days.

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  Building Social Capital in Healthcare

  Jul 17, 2026—

  In this episode, Thomas Lee, MD, CMO, Press Ganey, shares practical steps health systems can take to strengthen trust in their communities and explores why trust matters for patient outcomes and operational resilience. This episode is brought to you by Med-Matrix.

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