Nearly half of healthcare executives plan to leave their organizations within the next year, according to a recent survey. Such significant turnover puts healthcare organizations at risk for operational disruptions, instability, and overreliance on interim leadership — which means succession planning should be a crucial and ongoing topic of discussion.
Yet succession planning is often viewed as an academic exercise and rarely a priority until an actual leadership gap exists. For an understandable reason, too: There are always more immediate fires to address.
