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Leadership Matters: Role of Governance in Quality and Safety
This webinar focuses on quality and patient safety, specifically on the importance of board involvement.
System Board Quality Committee Guidelines
Trustee Articles
The Hospital System Board of Trustees Quality Committee shall meet quarterly in order to provide: Visibility and focus for the organization’s commitment to the delivery of high quality medical care; Oversight of quality and performance improvement initiatives across the Hospital System.
Eliminating Harm, Improving Patient Care: A Trustee Guide Video Series
Videos
The four video modules, discussion guide and self-assessment tool illustrate the important role that trustees play in the journey to improve patient care. They serve as a tool for all trustees to use as they work towards the goals of improving quality within their organizations and improving the health of their patients and communities they serve.
The Role of the Board Chair
On-Demand Educational Webinars
This webinar outlines key questions for boards to ask and approaches to take to clarify an explicit role and job description for the board chair.
Using Board Meeting Time Wisely
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Webinar: A board only exists when it is meeting. This means that the single most precious commodity that a board possesses is its time together. The best boards consciously strive to use their meeting time efficiently and effectively.
New Approaches to Effective Board Decision Making
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Webinar: The first thing any effective board or leadership group does is decide how it will make decisions. Further, effective boards develop different, clearly defined processes to make decisions of different magnitudes. Yet, many boards have never had an explicit conversation about or developed multiple approaches to this most critical of governance functions — their decision making. This webinar will outline several different, practical and effective decision making techniques to expand your board’s tool kit of processes and techniques for making effective decisions.
Board Chair Performance Evaluation
On-Demand Educational Webinars
In this webinar governance expert Jamie Orlikoff reviews the rationale for board board chair evaluation, and outlines the step by step process for establishing an effective and productive board chair evaluation process.
Safety and the Road to COVID-19 Recovery: The Role of the Board
As hospitals and health systems across the country begin and continue the “recovery” process during the COVID-19 outbreak, the AHA is keeping you updated with the latest information and resources. An important area to address is the role of governing boards as hospitals and health systems resume delivering comprehensive health care services.
The Role of the Board in Medical Staff Credentialing
On-Demand Educational Webinars
This webinar from governance expert Jamie Orlikoff, explores the hospital board’s crucial responsibility for medical staff credentialing – one of the most difficult governance functions to perform effectively, and one of the most important board responsibilities for patient quality and safety. Become comfortable with the basics of credentialing and how to effectively oversee it to both protect patients and to assure fair, thorough and consistent treatment of physicians. Trustees will acquire a better understanding of the different but related processes involved in appointment and reappointment or physicians to the medical staff, and the delineation of clinical privileges.
Video Library
Videos
This video library includes: A Trustee’s Guide to Population Health: Building New Foundations Linking Care with Community; The Board’s Role in a Changing Health Care Environment and Eliminating Harm; and Improving Patient Care: A Trustee Guide. These video series' include video modules, discussion guides and self-assessment tools.