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Employee health plans give hospitals a training ground
Hospitals and health systems have the ability to shape more effective health care through choices they make about managing their own employee health plans.
Top 10 Practices of Great Boards
Board Checklists
Be sure every member fully understands his or her accountability, responsibilities and the expectations of the office, and document it all in a written position description...
Safer, smaller, smarter health tech
Iron lungs out. Surgical robots in. The heart-wrenching sight of rows of children trapped in iron lungs has given way to the ability to transplant lungs.
Leadership Assessment and Competencies
As hospitals and health systems continue to navigate the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, one important tool often goes overlooked.
Rocking the boat can be the best course for hospital boards
Many board members at local, independent hospitals have expertise in a wide range of industries, but they often do not have specialist skills in governing hospitals in today’
Board Practices that Separate the Best from the Rest
Trustee Articles
The AHA’s 2011 Governance Survey shows that good governance practices continue to take hold among hospitals and health systems. Driven by powerful economic pressures and stringent legal requirements to be visionary, strategic, diligent and independent, boards are applying various “good governance” practices, including competency-based succession planning, board orientation and education, routine executive sessions, CEO retention planning, and board self-evaluation.
Leadership Summit to feature governance track
The American Hospital Association’s 2018 Leadership Summit, "Advancing Affordable Care and Promoting Value," to be held July 26-28 in San Diego, will offer hospital
Active Board Succession
Trustee Articles
A decade ago, BoardSource, an organization supporting nonprofit boards, developed a well known list of aspirational principles of governance. For us they still ring true: “mission driven,” “ethos of transparency,” “compliance with integrity.”