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The Importance of Governing Boards in Developing a Behavioral Health Strategy
Hospital and health system boards can play a significant role in developing and guiding behavioral health strategy and working with community partners to address unmet health needs in the community and expand access to services.
Board Meetings: How to Drive Effective Board Dynamics
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Webinar
Board Meetings: How to Drive Effective Board Dynamics
The format of a board agenda can either drive effective strategic discussion or can stifle it
Population Health Resources for Boards
The AHA provides links to population health resources for boards.
Two-Part Discussion on Diversity and the Future of Boards
Three trustee leaders answer questions about advancing board diversity and how governance may evolve in an ever-changing health care environment.
What Boards Need to Know about the New CMS QAPI Requirement Jun 28
CMS's QAPI program is intended to ensure that hospitals have in place active and effective systems to examine the care they provide, identify problems that contribute to patient harm or poor performance and take steps to remedy those problems with appropriate follow up to ensure performance has improved. In updating this interpretive guidance, CMS is emphasizing its expectation that governing boards must oversee the quality of care provided. During AHA’s webinar, participants will hear from Nancy Foster, Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, AHA about these new requirements and learn how to prepare your board to meet them.
Helping Boards Have Productive Conversations about Quality of Care
Trustee Articles
Health care boards that take a broader view of “quality” and incorporate measures that reflect this understanding are better able to assess performance in the right areas.
Quality and Professional Affairs Committee Charter
Board and Committee Charters
The Quality Committee assists the board in overseeing and ensuring the quality of clinical care, patient safety, and customer service provided throughout the organization.
Governing in the New Quality, Safety Landscape
Trustee Articles
For effective oversight, boards must engage at three levels: see, own and solve.
Governance Quality Engagement Diagnostic
Board Checklists
This diagnostic is designed to help boards and organization leaders identify challenges that may be impeding efforts to improve quality. Developed by Jim Conway, this resource draws on 20 years of personal governance experience as well as learning from the literature and the shared experience of trustees, executives, patients, family members, staff, teachers, and students.