title: Changing of the old guard. With growing pressure on them to instigate healthcare reform, state hospital associations seek more dynamic leadership.
abstract: As state hospital associations increasingly feel the need to lead the charge for reform, there's been a wave of new chief executives at a number of groups. "The role of the state hospital association is in flux," says Dan Moen, left, chairman of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. "We're the incubators. Healthcare is moving toward that tipping point The confluence of issues and pressures is going to result in change".
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D012954:Societies, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States