It's been a while since I updated ya'll on all the hospital administration blogs that are out there. Even though we are few and far between, we've grown by leaps and bounds in the last few months. Doctor blogs, nurse blogs, patient blogs, and healthcare policy wonk blogs are all fairly well documented, but not hospital administration. So, here are the folks blogging from the front lines of hospital leadership.

Of course, I have to start with the three other bloggers at here hospital impact.

- Nick Jacobs at WinberBlog - Nick is the first hospital CEO to start a blog - he's an unconventional CEO that has unconventional wisdom and insights.

- Andrew Barna at HealthcareTomorrow - Andrew is Director, Special Projects at Stanford Medical Center and has pithy, concise analysis on healthcare trends he sees.

- Craig Ahrens at The Business of Healthcare - Craig is Manager at ECG Management Consulting and does quite a bit of service line improvement work. His first-of-its-kind "healthcare talkshow" lets us hear things straight from the horse's mouth.

- Paul Levy at Running a Hospital - Paul is President/CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He's a relatively late-comer (just started in August 2006), but has already developed quite a following, from everyday Bostonians to national policy wonks. Arguably the hospital administrator blog getting the most attention.

- Christina Thielst at Christina's Considerations - she's a HCA hospital COO. Back from healthcare consulting with a vengeance! Lots of good focus on RHIOs and HIT.

- Dr. William Roper at "Roper on Health" - Dr. Roper is CEO of UNC Health System - for some reason, the blog hasn't really caught too much attention. In part, it's because Roper rarely offers opinions and other posts sometimes seem more like UNC PR.

- Joe at Joe Oncology - Joe heads up two cancer centers in the Southeast and wonders how to balance compassionate care and hard-nosed budgeting.