Rural hospitals and health systems often face a leadership Catch-22: They need strong leaders to overcome the well-documented challenges facing rural health care — limited resources and dwindling populations, for example — but struggle to recruit strong leaders because of these challenges.
In our experience, trustees are often the difference makers, depending on their ability to sell their organization to prospective CEOs and executives. In doing so, they must sell their board as being competent and committed and having a vision for the future.
