This is in health/medical and the employee in question is nearing retirement. I'd like to think that he should be encouraging them to consider a succession plan

This is in health/medical and the employee in question is nearing retirement. I'd like to think that he should be encouraging them to consider a succession plan ahead of time to minimise risk for the thousands of people likely to be effected by this. There's a good chance, from my understanding of the situation, that his managers don't understand the situation as well as he does. I think he should think bigger than himself. Management's decisions are unlikely to be budget related.