Guest post by Lynn McVey, CEO and president of Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, an acute care, 230-bed hospital in New Jersey.
Chuck Lauer is a former healthcare news publisher turned author and public speaker. I don't know his age, but he talks like my dad; a man from the "greatest generation." Men who pledge humanity, integrity, honesty and service. Men who make an effort to locate the owner of a lost $5 bill--like my dad.
Lauer's response to healthcare reform challenges, printed last month in Becker's Hospital Review, is huge. When he read the American College of Healthcare Executive's (ACHE) report that hospital CEO turnover grew to 20 percent in 2013, the highest rate since 1981, his reaction was like a slap in the face.
He said, "The CEO post is a pressure cooker. All that's true, but I and a number of other observers think the data reflect a lack of will and commitment. Faced with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to overcome silos, inefficiencies and quality problems plaguing American hospitals, more and more CEOs are making a beeline for the exit, hefty retirement packages in arm." Ouch.
Read the full commentary at Hospital Impact