In Dr. Jauhar’s latest column for The New York Times, he wrote about the decline of the physician leader and the concurrent growth in business leaders at hospitals. Less than 5 percent of hospitals are now physician-led, while the number of administrators without medical training has grown 30-fold over the last three decades, according to Dr. Jauhar.
While this trend may have been a response to concerns about financial efficiency and clinical care consistency at hospitals, Dr. Jauhar believes it may not always be in the best interest of the patients, citing a 2011 study that found hospitals with physician leaders scored higher on quality measures. “The very best hospitals in America are still run by physician chief executives — Toby Cosgrove at the Cleveland Clinic, for example, and John Noseworthy at the Mayo Clinic,” he wrote.
Read the full op-ed here.
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