Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025
Trends & Observations
With the preceding environmental scan as backdrop, Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025 turns to the survey data for insights on key dimensions of leadership. Six trends are explored.
1. Mixed Outlook With Many Disruptive Forces on the Horizon The survey annually takes the pulse of leaders on their outlook for the period ahead. First, they were queried on their own organization’s health over the next 12-18 months, considering financial prospects, workforce, reimbursement levels and other top-level factors. Results suggest some bullishness but a mainly cautious “holding pattern” (Figure 2). The percentage of respondents expecting “better” status than last year decreased 19 points to 34%, relinquishing an equal positive climb in 2024. “No change” doubled to 48%. At 18%, the “worse” scenario was better than last year. That direction is encouraging yet still finds pessimism among one in five organizations.
OVERALL ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH IN NEXT 12-18 MONTHS
34% BETTER
48% NO CHANGE
18% WORSE
Figure 2
A second question elicited the outlook for the overall healthcare industry. A balanced distribution emerged. Most expect 2025 to be similar to 2024
(39%), and there were nearly equal results for a better (30%) and a worse (31%) year. These data points reinforce the markedly divergent organizational landscape.
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