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How You Can Advance Your Board Diversity Strategies
Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack discusses how health care boards can play an essential role in diversity strategies.
Sample Board Demographic/Attribute Profile Matrix
Adapted from “Recruiting for a Diverse Health Care Board,” by Karma H. Bass (Trustee Insights, Dec. 2020).
Board Leadership in Challenging Times
Carolyn F. Scanlan, vice chair of Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health, discusses how governing boards can best address some of the challenges ahead in 2021.
Board chair coaching process
Discussion Questions & Templates
A good coach focuses on what the board chair wants to accomplish and designs a coaching process based on how the board chair experiences the role; on assessment of individual strengths and weaknesses; and on identifying and addressing blind spots. Each coaching process should be customized to meet the board chair’s individual needs and goals.
Assessing Overall Board Effectiveness: Key Elements for Success to Consider
Investing time now in evaluating and enhancing board effectiveness can accelerate organizational results for years to come.
Exploring Ways to Reinvent Generational Recruitment
An emerging group of future health care leaders are ready to take on the challenge of health care board service.
Trustee Insights Archive Editions
Trustee Insights I Archive includes previous editions of the AHA’s enhanced digital resource for hospital and health system boards and leadership. This robust monthly digital package includes insights and analysis on the changing dynamics in the health care field and what they mean for boards, as well as other rich resources to help achieve high-performing governance.
11 Principles for Health System Governance
A WellSpan Health task force developed meaningful principles that signaled a changed approach to governance at the health system.
The Leadership Audit
Evaluations and Assessments
To understand how the organization really functions on a day-to-day basis, boards need to gauge the hospital’s work life and its efficacy. Board responsibilities include: (a) understanding the hospital’s operating model and whether it actually performs in that mode, how critical decisions are made, and the hospital’s ability to recognize its own problems and “self-correct”; and (b) ensuring that it happens.