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Six Ways a Trustee Can Help Create an Ideal Culture

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What is the board’s role in shaping culture? Several health care leaders offer advice that reflects the diversity of their experiences.

AHA 2019 National Health Care Governance Survey Report

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Latest findings point to several positive trends and opportunities for improving governance structures, practices and performance. The report includes expert commentary and discussion questions for board reflection.

Top 10 Emerging Trends in Health Care for 2021: The New Normal

Continued disruption will require health care boards to adapt their governance models to adapt to the unprecedented times.

Bringing Competencies into Governance: Systems Helping Systems

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As health care organizations become more complex and diverse, their governance requires individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address the needs and challenges of these evolving enterprises. As their organizations mature, effective boards update how their members are selected, often moving away from informal, relationship based board composition to a more intentional, competency-based process.

Sample Director Recruitment and Selection Process

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From a Community Multi-Site Hospital with a Diverse Community Note: the following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs. 

Time for a New Model of Governance

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The crisis brewing in the traditional governance model requires conscious construction of new models relevant to new times.

Competency-Based Succession Planning

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Even before the Enron scandal, which featured directors who didn’t understand the company’s complex financial transactions, and before the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act required publicly owned corporations to disclose whether their boards include directors with financial expertise, it should have been self‐evident that relevant knowledge and experience are prerequisites for effective governance.  

Committees: The Key to Generative Governance

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High-performing boards across the country have made great strides in enhancing their effectiveness and efficiency.

Nurses in the Boardroom

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A board member/trustee with a nursing background brings a unique voice to governance conversations focused on the Triple Aim. Nurses bring expertise in and valuable perspectives about community health, quality, safety, patient experience, workforce development, staff engagement and financial stewardship.

Leveraging Committees

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As health care field changes become more complex, savvy board and executive leaders are intentionally increasing the time that their boards spend in robust discussions of strategic challenges and opportunities.