A podcast from RETAIN HEALTH

Healthcare's Keeping Problem

Healthcare doesn't have a hiring problem. It has a keeping problem. Every other week, a short, plain-spoken look at why healthcare leaders leave, what it costs when they do, and what actually makes someone stay.

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Being qualified is the price of admission. Staying is the hard part.

Every leadership search asks whether someone can do the job. Almost none ask whether they'll still be doing it in a few years — and that second question is the one that costs money, momentum, and people.

This show is about that gap. Some episodes are about what the research says. Some are about what I watched happen from inside academic medical centers, safety-net hospitals, public health systems, and FQHCs. And some are healthcare leaders telling you, anonymously, what they would have said on the way out if anyone had asked.

Hosted by Kimberly Cook, MPHFounder + CEO, RETAIN HEALTH
Episodes

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01
Qualified is the price of admission
Everyone in the final round can do the job. So why do so many leadership hires come apart inside two years? The question nobody asks in the interview — and what it costs when it goes unasked.
Episode 1 · about 4 minutes Listen on Apple Podcasts ↗
02
Paid to leave
Executive search isn't built to stick around — not because anyone's cutting corners, but because of how the model pays. The fee lands at the signature. Staying power happens after the check clears.
Episode 2 · about 4 minutes Listen on Apple Podcasts ↗
03
Culture fit isn't dead
Killing "culture fit" was half right. The problem was never fit — it's that we measured resemblance and called it fit. What to ask instead, and why difference is the point.
Episode 3 · about 4 minutes Launching week of October 19th
The Exit Interview

What would you have said on the way out?

A recurring segment. Healthcare leaders tell us what they wish they'd said when they left a role — the thing the actual exit interview never captured, because nobody asked, or because it wasn't safe to say.

Published anonymously, always. Organizations are described by type and size only, never named or located. You sign a release granting us the right to publish and to edit as needed to protect anonymity — including yours.

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