title: The best hospital administrator in the world.
abstract: Today's hospitals require executives who can create meaning, motivation, and cohesion for a broad array of people. Somebody who can combine resoluteness with flexibility. Somebody who is hard-headed and soft-hearted. There's a good role model in Boston.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Beckham
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D006666:History of Medicine; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000592:standards*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D007857:Leadership