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Board Dashboards Deliver Vital Stats
Snapshot The dashboard is a quick, comprehensive way to keep trustees informed on hospital performance.
Overcoming 10 barriers to effective governance
In today’s environment of health care transformation, hospital and health system boards must evaluate every aspect of their governance processes, practices, meetings and composition to ensure
Principles and Best Practices for Effective Governance
Trustee Articles
The trustees of one health system were divided over how to structure the board. Some favored proportional representation from its acute care, nursing home and elder services divisions; others wanted all at-large members with no interests to promote.
The CEO of another health system had restructured so facility executives were directly accountable to corporate management for finances and operations. He wanted local boards to focus on strategic direction and oversight of quality, but local boards continued monthly monitoring of finances as they’d always done. Some trustees wondered what their role was.
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.
Governance Principles for Physician Organizations
Trustee Articles
Healthcare executive support can influence the value these organizations provide.
HIIN builds on success
Faced with ongoing improvement work and beckoning opportunities, more than 4,000 hospitals around the country have joined together to improve care and increase collaboration through the Hospital Im
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.
Conflict Manager: The Board Chair's Unsung Role
Trustee Articles
Board chairs are often chosen based on peer respect, professional knowledge, demonstrated commitment such as chairing a board committee, and willingness to put in the time required. A somewhat surprising finding to emerge from the AHA’s 2011 Governance Survey is that conflict management is an important yet seldom discussed role of the board chair.
Most Commonly Asked Questions About Board Committees
Trustee Articles
Here are some of the questions that we as governance consultants hear most frequently about board committees.
2018 Sample Board Composition Policy
Board Policies
Board and Committee Composition and Succession Planning...