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Carolinas HealthCare System: 2017 Mission & Vision Statements

Trustee Articles
The heart of your organization should be reflected in your mission and vision statements.

Hospitals and health systems consider paths to increasing value

Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Performance data give Medicare and other pay

Financial Challenges Claim Top Spot on CEOs List of Concerns

Community hospital chief executive officers ranked financial challenges first on a list of their top 10 concerns in 2014, according to an annual survey by the American College of Healthcare Executi

Setting the Standard for Discharges

Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., has done something every hospital in America wants to do.

The Ins and Outs of Physician Payment After Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Reform

On April 16, President Barack Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Using a Scorecard for Strategic Results

Trustee Articles
Although scorecards that measure health system performance against established metrics have become an increasingly common and useful tool in the trustee’s governance toolbox, finding concrete, comprehensive ways to measure how well the organization is achieving its strategic goals — and, in turn, determining incentive compensation based on goal achievement — can be a daunting, ephemeral task. Here’s how one health care system has successfully connected all the dots.

Clarifying Expectations: A First Step in Developing Truly Effective Relationships Between CEOs and Trustees

Trustee Articles
This is the second in a series of collaborative leadership tools for CEOs. The first one presented a new model of collaborative leadership.This one focuses on clarifying trustees’ and CEOs’ expectations of each other. It includes a simple exercise for helping trustees and CEOs refine the way they work together.

Trustees playing game with higher stakes

By now, every health care leader understands that the Affordable Care Act is catalyzing a complete transformation of the field, including reimbursement arrangements, business models and mechanism

New payment models coming thick and fast

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year set the ambitious goal of tying 30 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments to quality or value through alternative payment models by

Asset Stewardship and the Board's 3 for Understanding and Improving Operational Efficiency

Trustee Articles
Asset stewardship has long been a key board responsibility. As fiduciaries of a health care organization’s assets, governing boards are required to act in the best interest of the organization, ensuring that resources are used in a reasonable, appropriate and legally accountable way to meet community health care needs.