ACHE RANKS CONCERNS FACING

HOSPITALS Greg Angle

Introduction With many years of experience in health services

administration, Greg Angle stays up-to-date on the latest issues in the healthcare field. In addition to his work overseeing ten hospitals as president of the HCA Mountain, Greg Angle was certified as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) for 2011-2012.

ACHE focuses on improving hospital management, advancing its members’ careers and helping them to provide high quality patient care. In addition to its career development and public policy programs, ACHE conducts research into the medical administration field.

American College of Healthcare Executives

Recently, ACHE studied and ranked the top concerns facing hospitals. As in previous years, financial difficulties were the number one concern among hospital CEOs. Patient safety and quality, government mandates, personnel shortages, and patient satisfaction rounded out the top five. Access to care was the sixth most pressing concern, an issue that was not raised in the prior two years of the survey. Surveys were distributed to gather data from 1,054 community hospital CEOs, 350 of whom responded.