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Sample Performance Standards for Evaluating Annual Incentive Plans
Evaluations and Assessments
As health care organizations face a number of emerging challenges, the compensation committee of the not-for- profit hospital and health system board is well served to review and update the executive compensation program periodically.
The Role of the Board in Medical Staff Credentialing
On-Demand Educational Webinars
This webinar from governance expert Jamie Orlikoff, explores the hospital board’s crucial responsibility for medical staff credentialing – one of the most difficult governance functions to perform effectively, and one of the most important board responsibilities for patient quality and safety. Become comfortable with the basics of credentialing and how to effectively oversee it to both protect patients and to assure fair, thorough and consistent treatment of physicians. Trustees will acquire a better understanding of the different but related processes involved in appointment and reappointment or physicians to the medical staff, and the delineation of clinical privileges.
Streamlining the Credentialing and Privileging Process
Trustee Articles
The legal authority to approve, limit or deny provider credentials and privileges is a fundamental board responsibility. Organizations that centralize and standardize this process are better prepared to meet the field’s many changes and challenges.
What Boards Need to Know About the New CMS QAPI Requirement
CMS on March 9 released changes to its interpretive guidance for the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program.
Financial Turnaround Needs Board Oversight
boards must become more involved in the oversight of the financial turnaround of their organizations than they did in past periods of lessor financial challenge. This may involve a board monitoring levels of detail that would have previously been inappropriate. But, when a hospital or system is facing an existential threat, it becomes a governance issue and it is appropriate and necessary for a board to engage more deeply than it did in the past.
Governing in the New Quality, Safety Landscape
Trustee Articles
For effective oversight, boards must engage at three levels: see, own and solve.
Key Action Steps for the Compensation Committee
Trustee Articles
Discover the benefits of shared performance goals at the system level and how to implement them in your executive compensation program with AHA's tips.
Transforming Care Delivery to Focus on Patient Outcomes: Why Boards Matter
Trustee Articles
In the publication, authors Joshi and Horak state that hospital trustees support hospitals’ fundamental missions to improve the health of the community. In a climate of growing concerns about the quality of health care and the amount we pay for it, trustees are called upon to oversee the transformation of the culture of the organization.