Transforming Governance
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is dedicated to transforming health care governance through the work of its Trustee Services.
Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.
Changing the mindset of health care CEOs and boards to envision the board’s potential is the first step in a long trek to turn the board into a strategic asset.
Boards can provide tremendous value and crucial support to their hospitals and health systems during the COVID-19 crisis.
To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system boards play a critical role to assure plans, policies and resources are in place.
Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.
Governance restructuring efforts of eight health systems provide lessons on redefining what it means to be a community board.
Health systems that take the time to assess the role and value of subsidiary boards, and invest in educating their members, can maintain a key community connection that might otherwise be diminished or lost.
For effective cultural stewardship, boards need to promote behavioral expectations for patient care
and make sure that espoused values and norms are respected throughout the organization.
Latest findings point to several positive trends and opportunities for improving governance structures, practices and performance. The report includes expert commentary and discussion questions for board reflection.