title: Choosing to change. Three healthcare executives discuss how and why they made the transition out of acute care settings.
abstract: It was the hot opportunity for professionals in healthcare administration. But hospital administration is no longer necessarily the most attractive career option for healthcare executives at any stage of their career. Many professionals who have built their careers in the once rock-solid field of hospital management are having to eye other healthcare management avenues, and most of them are finding that the field is wide open. Following are three profiles of former acute care executives who moved out of the acute care setting into areas where they never dreamed of working. While change is always a little threatening, all of them agree that the transition from the acute care world has not been overly traumatic. In fact, their experiences suggest that with the right skills and the right opportunities, transitioning out of acute care can be a positive experience.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Firshein
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006123:Group Practice; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000639:trends*; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D014481:United States