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Purchaser Pressure: The Emerging Role of Employers in Driving Value in Healthcare

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As medical costs consume an ever increasing share of businesses’ profits, self-funded employers and public purchasers of health insurance are becoming more aggressive than ever before in direct contracting with providers.

Boardroom Brief: How Boards Contribute to a Safe Workplace and Community

This brief intends to raise awareness about violence as a public health issue and provides resources for boards to work with hospital and health system leaders to build safer workplaces and communities.

Understanding Affordability and Value in Health Care

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Affordability is one of the most important challenges influencing Americans’ ability to access health care. However, no single, agreed-upon definition of health care affordability exists because it is influenced by many complex factors.

Effective Governance of Health Systems

Governing a health system is different than governing a stand-alone hospital. All health system boards oversee and attempt to integrate different businesses regardless of the type of system they govern.

Nurse as CEO: A unique fit

On her first day of work in September at Florida’s Memorial Hospital Miramar, Grisel Fernandez-Bravo, R.N., was given a hospital ID badge displaying her new title: chief executive officer

Essential Skills for Todays CEO

The board is responsible for setting the hospital or health system’s mission and vision, and for engaging leaders and staff in working toward that vision.

Financial Challenges Claim Top Spot on CEOs List of Concerns

Community hospital chief executive officers ranked financial challenges first on a list of their top 10 concerns in 2014, according to an annual survey by the American College of Healthcare Executi

Health, hope and healing — for all

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Hospital CEO Turnover Rate High, Shows Slight Decline in 2014

Hospitals continued to see a high rate of CEO turnover in 2014, with 4,501 hospitals reporting a rate of 18 percent, according to a report recently released by the American College of Healthcare Ex