Abstract

ARROYAVE ZULUAGA, IVÁN DARÍO. Selection of candidates for public hospital chief executive officers: The experience of the CES University in Antioquia. CES Med. [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.1, pp.109-122. ISSN 0120-8705.

The article is divided into two parts. The first one is named"the State Social Enterprises (ESE by the acronym in Spanish)", and refers on the framework in which is inscribed this kind of public decentralized hospitals in Colombia to finally arrive to the figure of managers of the ESE [hospital chief executive officers], which is the central issue of the article. This part is divided in: decentralization of public hospitals, public funding of ESE, structure and organization of ESE, Directive Boards of ESE, managers of the ESE, evaluation of managers of the ESE, and selection of managers of the ESE. It is explained that, in according what is suggested by the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, the mechanism for choosing would be based in future on merit, exclusively, and it could convert the selection process in a particularly relevant step and it justifies to evaluate the institutional experiences to refine the procedures in the future. Since this, the second part of the article, about"selection of triples for manager of ESE in the CES University", makes a historical review of the processes and explains the methodology that has been used, to finally make a brief analysis about the know-how of the CES University in that field.

Keywords : Municipal hospitals; Public hospitals; Hospital chief executive officers; Hospital personnel administration; Colombia.

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