Partners names interim CEO. I'm quoted in the Boston Globe

Partners HealthCare moved quickly to appoint Dr. Anne Klibanski as interim CEO after the resignation of Dr. David Torchiana. I was quoted in the Boston Globe story about it:

The Boston health care consultant David Williams said naming an interim CEO gives the board some time to conduct a thorough search for a permanent replacement.“They have a history of taking a senior physician and making them CEO of Partners,’’ said Williams, the president of Health Business Group. “Now I think they’re not sure if they want to do that again or if they want to look more broadly for, say, a business person.”

Partners would be wise to thing long and hard about what kind of a person should lead the organization. It may also be time to confront some of the internal contradictions and misalignments within the system and to consider restructuring. That may await the next CEO.----By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.