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Best practices for partnering success
Hospital and health system leadership teams may look to partner with other organizations in an effort to gain capabilities for evolving care and payment arrangements.
Overseeing Health Equity in the Age of Emerging Risk
Incorporating health equity into strategy represents a new undertaking for some health care leaders — one that requires a shift in thinking and taking action in such core areas as culture, structure, functions and incentives.
Board's Role in Managing a Crisis
Trustee Articles
The hospital's board chair picks up the phone in his office at TriState Bank headquarters. The CEO’s voice on the other end of the line is stark and serious. “The medical executive committee just gave me a unanimous no confidence vote,” he says. “They’re complaining about closed communications and aloofness. And the Gazette called and wants to talk about my compensation."
Understanding Your Physician Employment Strategy
Trustee Articles
Oversight of an employed physician network is a new and evolving role for your board. Focus on five key issues, and adopt three best practices, to help the network succeed.
Enhancing Governance to Foster Innovation
Trustee Articles
By adopting practices that embrace innovation, boards are better prepared to plan for change.
Rocking the boat can be the best course for hospital boards
Many board members at local, independent hospitals have expertise in a wide range of industries, but they often do not have specialist skills in governing hospitals in today’
The Role of Philanthropy in Hospital Income
As stewards of their hospital or health care system’s advancement, board members should be both highly vested in the organization’s work as well as invested in its mission.
Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Succession Planning
The health care industry faces a combination of challenges that will affect every hospital and health system.
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.
Sample Board Chair Position Charter
Board and Committee Charters
This chair position charter is grounded on a model of healthcare organization governance forwarded in Board Work by Dennis Pointer and James E. Orlikoff (Jossey-Bass,1999).