Despite heavy presence in management, women underrepresented as hospital CEOs

Although nearly three-quarters of medical and service managers are women, only 18 percent of hospital CEOs are female, according to an infographic created by Norwich University's Master of Science in Nursing online program. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of CEOs hired this year in the medical sector have relatively little experience in the healthcare sector. The data in the infographic also indicate hospital leaders in larger hospitals (that is, those with 300 or more beds) are 45 percent more likely to spend at least 75 percent of their time focusing on population health than those in smaller hospitals. Infographic