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Board Diversity Survey to Advance Health Equity
Understanding a board’s aptitude and ability to advance health equity should be a key element of board strategy.
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.
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.
Improving the Patient and Family Experience
The AHA’s new resource “Patient and Family Advisory Councils Blueprint” outlines seven steps to successfully launch a meaningful and impactful PFAC.
Overseeing Health Equity in the Age of Emerging Risk
Incorporating health equity into strategy represents a new undertaking for some health care leaders — one that requires a shift in thinking and taking action in such core areas as culture, structure, functions and incentives.
Making Community Health Improvement the Heart and Soul of Governance
Trustee Articles
Continually improving community health should be part of the DNA of a health care organization and its board.
Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
Trustee Articles
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
Partnering in the New Health Care Environment: 5 Questions for Boards
Trustee Articles
Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards
Trustee Articles
An aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and the onset of value-based payment structures are among the many drivers that have moved hospitals and health systems in recent years to take a more prominent role in disease prevention, health promotion, and other public health initiatives.
Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Trustee Articles
Hospitals’ and health systems’ accountability and commitment to their communities are not only for the care provided within the organizations’ walls, but also for improving the overall health of the communities they serve. Many are acting on that commitment by striving to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim.