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Is Strategic Planning Getting Adequate Attention in Hospital Boards?
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As strategic planning becomes a more intense focus for hospital boards, lessons from publicly traded companies may be instructive.
Mission-Based Decision-Making for Boards
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A reason for being. An organization’s purpose or identity. An expression of what an organization believes it must be to best meet the needs of its stakeholders. These are descriptions of what we commonly think of as “mission.” Members of a health care organization’s board are responsible for governing in ways that help fulfill their organization’s mission. But what does that really mean? How does a hospital’s mission relate to effective governance?
Five Core Strategies for Developing High-Impact Physician Leadership: Common Ground for the Board and the C-Suite
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The emerging health care environment has changed the game for health care organizations and for physician leadership. The turbulence of that environment is going to require what could be called “agile organizations” adept at matching leadership and decision-making styles and setting and executing strategies appropriate to the nature and depth of environmental change.
Health System-Physician Relationship Continuum
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This monograph will focus on the Board’s role in plugging into how these processes are carried out within their organizations and on how the Board role is evolving. Among other things, we will address the characteristics of relationships among health care organizations and physicians that, if nurtured and respected, will enable the challenges of tomorrow to be more easily surmounted.
Perils of Payment
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The complexity around physician compensation demands defined, layered board oversight
What Boards Should Know about Physician Compensation
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Hospitals and health systems generally employ more physicians than executives. At the same time itʼs likely that the board of directors spends far more time on compensation issues in the C-suite than on physician compensation and its associated regulatory and business risks.
Physician Compact
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Reprinted with permission from Virginia Mason Medical Center.
Physician Whiplash
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Board support is essential in helping doctors take on and succeed in leadership roles. The emerging health care environment requires far more physician leadership than has been needed in the past. But there is a natural barrier to physicians who answer the call to lead, and it is best described as “physician whiplash.”
From Pro Forma to Proactive
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As hospitals buy physician practices, board compensation oversight must shift into high gear.