Healthcare Finance News January 16, 2026
“Most nurses want a manager emphatic to work/life balance,” says Kimberly Landers, RN at Morris Hospital.
Morris Hospital in Illinois is only 60 miles southwest of Chicago, but the rural, independent hospital has little relation to the larger resources of a health system in a bigger city.
It did go through the same challenges of any hospital during COVID-19 and its aftermath, including an exodus of nurses and other clinical staff. Morris Hospital lost 44% of its clinicians, said Kimberly Landers, RN, vice president of Patient Care and chief nursing executive at the hospital.
How the hospital turned this around is the basis of Landers’ session at the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition, taking place in Las Vegas...







