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.

Impactful realities

The problem is that the reality of healthcare succession planning differs considerably from the “academics” of it. In reality, succession planning isn’t an exact science because no two healthcare organizations

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