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Governing in the Digital Age
Trustee Articles
Most boards I know were built by recruiting business leaders, physicians and clergy, and it’s important to have broad community representation among trustees. Increasingly, however, boards are recruiting new members by using a skills-based approach aligned with the organization’s strategic needs, including the need for information technology expertise. This is where “digital directors” come in.
Governing to Achieve the Triple Aim: Broadening the Board's Perspective
Trustee Articles
The Triple Aim of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populationsand reducing per capita costs of health care is a nationally recognized goal that provides context for much of the work now underway to redesign existing systems for care, payment and collaboration to achieve better health outcomes for all Americans.
Purchaser Pressure: The Emerging Role of Employers in Driving Value in Healthcare
Trustee Articles
As medical costs consume an ever increasing share of businesses’ profits, self-funded employers and public purchasers of health insurance are becoming more aggressive than ever before in direct contracting with providers.
Transformation and the Governance Agenda: Keeping Your Board on Track
Trustee Articles
Now that the Affordable Care Act has been upheld, it appears that the American health care delivery system is about to embark on unprecedented change. This transition encompasses a staggering number of issues: integration and physician alignment; significant reduction in Medicare reimbursement; heightened emphasis on quality and safety; the need to evaluate and pursue partnership options, such as mergers and affiliations with health care providers along the continuum of care; defining and delivering accountable care; and ultimately the complete transformation of an acute care based system to systems of care that promote and encourage population health.
Addressing Health Equity in the Hospital Board Room
COVID-19 has made it clear that addressing health equity is necessary to improve health and save lives, and hospital and health system trustees need to lead and collaborate in these efforts.
New Approaches to Board Chair Effectiveness
Trustee Articles
Over the past decade, we have learned much about board effectiveness. A growing body of research has systematically confirmed the intuitive link between board and organizational performance: higher-performing boards are associated with higher-performing organizations.
Forging the Link Between Community and Health
Trustee Articles
The AHA’s 2017 report documents how leading health care organizations and their boards, in collaboration with other community partners, are beginning to expand efforts to addressthe myriad of social determinants that significantly affect the health of their communities.
Keeping Value Front and Center in Health Care
Hospital boards can think creatively about how to generate value for their patients and communities.
Applying Competency-based Criteria to Committee Makeup and Education
Trustee Articles
More and more boards are adopting the practice of using competency-based criteria to select governing board members. They identify the subject areas and behavioral qualities needed from trustees and apply them to recruitment, orientation, leadership development, succession planning and periodic evaluation.
The Board’s Role in Advancing Healthier, More Equitable Communities
Hospital and health system board members play a critical role in prioritizing, understanding and collaborating to improve health equity.