April 7, 2021 GMT
BOSTON (AP) The president of Massachusetts General Hospital said Wednesday that he plans to step down after 18 years at the helm of one of the top hospitals in the country.
Dr. Peter Slavin, 63, announced his plans in an email to staff. He will stay on until the hospital’s parent company, Mass General Brigham, selects a successor. He did not announce any future plans.
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“This is one of the hardest decisions I have ever made,” he wrote. “After months of both reflecting and looking ahead, I have concluded there will never be a right time to leave. Yet this particular moment in the arc of this storied institution feels like a crossroads of sorts.”
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Massachusetts General’s CEO Peter Slavin saw the COVID pandemic coming but now he sees hope, risk
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
This article first appeared on the Boston Business Journal’s
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On Feb. 27, 2020, as Boston bustled with its usual workday hum, Massachusetts General Hospital President Peter Slavin’s level of concern over the coronavirus pandemic then ravaging China was at a six out of 10.
Preparations at the hospital had kicked into overdrive, because Slavin knew the hospital’s background in infectious disease would mean the hospital would be called upon to help the U.S. response. At the Boston Business Journal’s Health Care Power Breakfast, he explained how the flu, with its 0.1% mortality rate, kills approximately 50,000 people in the U.S. annually. In Wuhan, coronavirus had a mortality rate that was likely from five to 20 times higher.