Feb. 13, 2023 – According to the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey of top issues confronting hospitals, “workforce challenges” ranked at the top of the list of hospital CEOs’ top concerns in 2022.
The survey was sent to 1,321 community hospital CEOs who are ACHE members. ACHE asked respondents to rank 11 issues affecting their hospitals in order of how pressing they are and to identify specific areas of concern within each of those issues.
Workforce challenges is a category that includes personnel shortages, which was hospital CEOs’ top-ranked issue in 2021, as well as staff burnout, among other workforce issues. The category was introduced to the survey last year to better represent the multitude of workforce-related issues hospitals face.
Financial challenges ranked second in the 2022 survey, and behavioral health/addiction issues ranked third.
This was the second year in a row that workforce or personnel challenges has been the top-ranked issue. Before that, financial challenges ranked first in the survey for 16 consecutive years.