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Beyond Bylaws: Four Health Care Governance Lessons from COVID-19

While continuing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, hospital and health system boards can use this experience to strengthen leadership, engagement and trust.

How to Develop Board Goals

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Many governing boards are frustrated because most board meetings and committee meeting agendas are so full of both important and routine business that little time is left over for interactive discussion and questions concerning highly significant or future-oriented strategy and policy issues.

Nurses in the Boardroom

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A board member/trustee with a nursing background brings a unique voice to governance conversations focused on the Triple Aim. Nurses bring expertise in and valuable perspectives about community health, quality, safety, patient experience, workforce development, staff engagement and financial stewardship.

Trustee Education

Health care is a complex and fast-moving enterprise. How can trustees stay abreast of the trends and factors impacting the field?

How to Grow the Amount of Women on Hospital Boards

In many ways, women are on the front line in health care — as consumers, employees and family caretakers. They possess firsthand knowledge of community health issues and needs.

Bringing Competencies into Governance: Systems Helping Systems

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As health care organizations become more complex and diverse, their governance requires individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address the needs and challenges of these evolving enterprises. As their organizations mature, effective boards update how their members are selected, often moving away from informal, relationship based board composition to a more intentional, competency-based process.

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Intermountain Healthcare Embraces Transformation

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Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare continues to transform itself to best adapt to the demands of the changing health care environment. As part of the current transformation, the health system has organized its leadership to optimize the interdependencies of safety, quality, patient experience and workforce engagement. Under this construct, the system streamlines decision making, minimizes waste and redundancy, and positions the organization to deliver exceptional patient-centered care.

The ethical leader: Practical tips on decision-making

Trustee talking points As hospitals move into value-based business models and assume risk, ethical issues are likely to become more prevalent. Ethical le