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Serving Older Emergency Patients with Extra TLC
Trustee Articles
Hospitals large and small recognize the value of special protocols and services for older patients who seek emergency care.
Physician Whiplash
Trustee Articles
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.”
Successful Strategic Planning: The Board Role
Trustee Articles
This monograph covers the basics of strategic planning, including definitions of common terms, a description of the planning process and the characteristics of successful plans. It describes the board’s role in planning, including why plans fail, common weaknesses and how boards can support successful plan implementation.
Position Description for a Board Chairperson
Position Descriptions
Responsibilities and expectations for board chairs are identified and defined.
Someone to Lean On
Trustee Articles
Health care CEOs may need a little help. How about hiring a chief of staff?
Board Compensation: The Emerging New Normal
The AHA triennial survey of health care boards reveals the exponential growth in the number of boards that provide cash compensation to their members.
Getting the Most Out of Philanthropy: How to Reinvent the Foundation Board
Trustee Articles
Health care is in a period of transformation as reimbursement and delivery systems make the leap from payment based on volume to payment based on value. Philanthropy is playing a role in this transformation.
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.
Incorporating Cyberrisk Management into Enterprise Risk Management
Cyberattacks have far-reaching consequences that directly threaten patient care, patient safety and broader public health and safety, by potentially denying the availability of the hospital and emergency medical care to the community.