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Selecting & Preparing a Chair Elect
Trustee Articles
Despite the importance of the role, many boards do not give selection and preparation of the board chair the attention they should. In a recent survey by The Governance Institute, 64% of boards said they had established an explicit process for selection of the board chair but these processes often are little more than a thoughtful conversation among the executive or governance committee about the next chair.
Trustee Involvement
Trustee Involvement
The AHA has numerous avenues for trustee involvement and participation in the Association’s governance, grassroots advocacy, policy development and field leaders
Coaching: A Critical Tool for Board Chair Development
Trustee Articles
Making coaching available to an incoming board chair can build the chair's capacity to lead the board effectively.
How to Create a Better Board-CEO Relationship
Snapshot A positive relationship between the board and CEO is a prerequisite for hospital and health system success.
Succession planning: An investment in leadership continuity and success
Ensuring that an organization has consistent and effective leadership at the top is a principal board responsibility.
Succession Planning
Penny Wheeler, M.D., was barely into her tenure as CEO of Allina Health and fresh from a transition period earlier this year with retiring CEO Kenneth Paulus when the topic turned to who might repl
Governance Improvement Practical Technique: Post-Board Meeting "Mini" Evaluations
Evaluations and Assessments
To maintain the momentum of continuous governance improvement, many "best practices" boards institute regular mini-evaluations of board meetings. Here, each board meeting concludes with every board member anonymously completing a brief evaluation form of how the board planned for and used its time during the meeting.
AHA President to Retire in 2015
American Hospital Association president and CEO Rich Umbdenstock announced that he will retire at the end of this year.
Evaluating New Strategic Projects
Trustee Articles
Securing board approval for a major new project can be a long and tricky process when the CEO proposing it isn’t sure which criteria trustees will use, and the board is equally uncertain what the yardsticks ought to be.
At Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., President and CEO Chandler Ralph asked her board to write down and agree on project evaluation criteria. In a two-hour workshop, trustees came up with 14 points that they now apply to every decision about whether to implement a new program.