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Chief Executive Officer Turnover In U.S. Hospitals, Whittington Lee Bowers
Chief Executive Officer Turnover In U.S. Hospitals, Whittington Lee Bowers
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The annual rates of hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO) turnover are important to track and evaluate for several reasons. Like other industries, the extent of hospital CEO turnover on an aggregate level is an indicator of the current instability and pace of change within the hospital industry. Sudden large changes in leadership trends can indicate broad changes in the industry, and small changes can indicate a general satisfaction with the status-quo. Since hospitals still dominate and have considerable influence over other sectors of the health care industry, the extent of hospital leadership changes, and the causes of those changes, are …