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Executive Women In Healthcare
Women are being promoted into executive positions at the nation’s hospitals and health systems at a rate not seen before. Furthermore, the women are being promoted largely from clinical responsibilities.
This is a promising trend in light of the nation’s focus on quality care, safety and reduction of errors. We believe women come to their leadership roles with greater experience, greater empathy and a greater chance of succeeding.
Traditional executives have Master’s Degrees in hospital administration and are comfortable with finance and to a great extent, information technology. They are less comfortable with quality initiatives.
The emerging female executives, 64 percent of whom have degrees in nursing and social service, are very comfortable with the quality initiatives and less comfortable with finance and IT.
Executive Women in Healthcare wants to give the new leaders a high level of comfort with finance, IT and other non-clinical activities to round out their ability to serve as effective senior officers.
Executive Women in Healthcare also wants to serve as a clearing house for discussions common to female leaders: overcoming gender prejudices; balancing home and work; the challenges of accepting a position in another community with a working husband and a family at home. The list goes on.
Networking is a large part of the reason Executive Women in Healthcare was formed. National conferences are being planned to bring women executives together to learn and share.
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