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Philanthropy as a High-Return Revenue Source
By illuminating the impact of philanthropy, hospitals reinforce their identity as mission-driven organizations that exist to serve — not profit from — their communities.
Effective CEO Performance Evaluation
Following key strategies for effective CEO performance appraisals are essential to the health care board’s role.
Empowering a Healthy Culture
Trustee Articles
Boards need to assess troubled areas in their organizations, set goals for improving the culture, and hold leaders accountable for change.
Understanding the Physician-Hospital Relationship
What boards should know about building relationships between valued physicians and hospitals and health systems.
Using Investment Governance to Achieve Financial Excellence
Significant financial stresses and the impact of economic and market conditions on investment portfolios are leading more boards of top hospitals and systems to re-evaluate their financial governance.
Taking Responsibility for Transitions at the Top
Succession planning is a high-stakes governance responsibility. The significant costs of protracted CEO searches and failed replacements are well-documented. Yet, data from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors continue to show that many boards aren’t focusing enough attention on succession planning or on getting it right.
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.