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Quality, Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Practical Recommendations for the Hospital Board
This webinar, hosted by the AHA’s Trustee Services, provides practical recommendations for boards to meet the quality and patient safety requirements as defined by regulatory bodies and accrediting organizations.
Partners for Public Health
Trustee Articles
Our understanding of effective governance in hospitals and health systems is growing. Several recent studies find that meeting certain benchmarks for board structure, composition, culture and evaluation practices has become a basic governance responsibility. These studies also call for heightened board engagement in governance oversight responsibilities.
Helping Boards Achieve and Demonstrate Accountability
Trustee Articles
With health reform comes increased demand for transparency about organizational performance and accountability. While most hospital and health system senior leaders realize this, board members, surprisingly, may not. As such, boards must have a clear understanding of their accountability to the organization’s stakeholders in order to govern effectively.
Crisis Management and Maintaining the Public Trust
Trustee Articles
Maintaining the public trust a hospital and its board can only be effective if they maintain the trust of those the organization serves. According to the Center for Healthcare Governance and the Health Research & Educational Trust’s Blue Ribbon Panel on health care governance, maintaining the public trust is the board’s most important responsibility."