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The Leadership Audit

Evaluations and Assessments
To understand how the organization really functions on a day-to-day basis, boards need to gauge the hospital’s work life and its efficacy. Board responsibilities include: (a) understanding the hospital’s operating model and whether it actually performs in that mode, how critical decisions are made, and the hospital’s ability to recognize its own problems and “self-correct”; and (b) ensuring that it happens.

How Children’s Minnesota Makes DEI Efforts a Priority

Through leadership and board support, Children’s Minnesota is making DEI efforts a strategic priority.

Trustee Insights Archive Editions

Trustee Insights I Archive includes previous editions of the AHA’s enhanced digital resource for hospital and health system boards and leadership. This robust ­monthly digital package includes insights and analysis on the changing dynamics in the health care field and what they mean for boards, as well as other rich resources to help achieve high-performing governance.

11 Principles for Health System Governance

A WellSpan Health task force developed meaningful principles that signaled a changed approach to governance at the health system.

Boardroom Brief: Encouraging a Risk-Aware Culture to Drive Value

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a strategic business discipline that supports the identification, assessment and management of risks. ERM can advance internal control of material risk and allow an organization to generate greater value from strategic and operational activities. To achieve these advantages, organizations must embed ERM elements into their culture and structure and examine the nature of the risks they face.

Responding to a Community Mental Health Crisis

How collaboration with community partners and identification of resources allowed Carroll Hospital to improve coordinated behavioral health services.

Role of the Chief Governance Officer

Trustee Articles
The recent economic crisis, coupled with weekly headlines about one company after another demonstrating poor corporate governance choices, led investors and corporate watchdogs to blame boards of directors for less than-expected company performance. These stakeholders argue that directors were asleep at the wheel and not paying close enough attention to their oversight responsibilities.

10 Questions Boards Can Answer to Advance Equity

COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call to the inequities experienced by underserved and historically marginalized populations.

Elevating Philanthropy: a Board Primer

Forward-thinking health care organizations are exploring alternative revenue sources, with many recognizing philanthropy as a pivotal opportunity.