Top 10 Leaders in Healthcare - 2021

Healthcare organizations involve strategic leadership in setting and working towards the fundamental goals of improving the quality of the health services delivered, ensuring cost-effectiveness and ensuring the facility. Hospital executives, vice presidents and health services managers are the people entrusted with these responsibilities. Even if top managers or head of the company are well-educated, professional and have impeccable work ethics, this doesn't count for much if they cannot inspire the team members underneath them to give it their all. This makes leadership important in all sectors, including health sector. Thus, the success of any organization to some extent lies in the hands of CFOs, CEO, and Directors of the institution. Valuable leadership can make a difference in patient care & employees views and could make them more organized. This will be considered by the patients and helps in the evaluation of the organization.

An effective healthcare leader will be a good mentor for others, challenge the status quo, educate others, and practice humility. Empathy, strategic decision making, and customer-first oriented approaches are also necessary to be successful in this sector. Hospital administrators are mostly involved in day-to-day activities such as managing personals, handling financial obligations and more, while C-suite executives like CEOs often devote more of their time to strategic planning with a view toward the long-term performance of the provider organization. They collaborate with other top executives and vice presidents on projects, negotiate contracts and handle business relationships, appoint administrators, department heads, and other staff and set goals & priorities for the entire organization. CFOs take care of analysis of financial statements and trends in care quality and delivery tracking cash flow, identifying any possible weakness requiring corrective action and more.

This issue of the CEO Insights magazine introduces you to a list of `Top 10 Leaders in Healthcare ­ 2021' who have helped in the transformation and growth of the healthcare industry of the country. The list has been crafted by a team of Industry veterans, CEOs, VCs and the CEO Insights editorial team, thus delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of a powerful nation.