Whats the career path to become hospital CEO?
The short answer: the majority of CEOs are first COO – more so than CFOs, CNOs, and CMOs. If you don’t believe it, check it out yourself. Get on the ACHE Affiliate Directory and do a search. Look through their work histories and you’ll see too many examples not to believe me. So how do you get to COO? Lots of paths, but usually you have to be running one of the major portions of the hospital – something like cardio or onco or surgery. Find out what the cash cows at your hospital are.
