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Sample Performance Standards for Evaluating Annual Incentive Plans

Evaluations and Assessments
As health care organizations face a number of emerging challenges, the compensation committee of the not-for- profit hospital and health system board is well served to review and update the executive compensation program periodically.

How Should We Handle Board Compensation?

Should hospital and health system trustees be compensated?

Rethinking the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Reducing readmissions is an important way to improve quality and lower health care spending, and hospitals are making significant progress.

Someone to Lean On

Trustee Articles
Health care CEOs may need a little help. How about hiring a chief of staff?

Total cost of care: Key considerations

There is a general consensus that the current level of health care spending is unsustainable. Yet, such spending is expected to continue to grow faster than the U.S.

Its time to get serious about costs

When announcing a new health care company formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, Warren Buffett didn’t mince words about the rationale: “The ballooning costs of health

AHA Annual Membership Meeting set for May

Conference AHA to bring together, policy, health care leaders Leaders from Congress, policy groups and health care will come together May 7–10 for the American Hospital Associat

Taking the leap into coverage

Trustee talking points Provider-owned health plans are becoming more common as hospitals and health systems look for ways to manage value-based payment and assume risk. <

Affordability at the fore

Hospitals are dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable care.

Dashboards and Balanced Scorecards

Dashboards/Scorecards
The dashboard or “balanced scorecard” has become a staple of effective governance. Charts and numerical data provide a comprehensive picture of organizational performance. Here are some questions to assess whether your board’s dashboard is as good as it could be.