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Governance Committee Charter

Board and Committee Charters
Overall Roles and Responsibilities -The Governance Committee provides for the board’s effectiveness and continuing development.

Sample Director Recruitment and Selection Process

Trustee Articles
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. 

Making the Business Case for Equitable Health Care

Health care transformation calls for engaging hospitals, trustees and communities to ensure that all patients receive high-quality care.

A new model for equity of care

Increasing diversity in health care leadership and eliminating care disparities are critical to ensuring high-quality care for all.

Bringing Competencies into Governance: Systems Helping Systems

Trustee Articles
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.

Competency-Based Succession Planning

Trustee Articles
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

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

Time for a New Model of Governance

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

Sample Governance Dashboard for Monitoring Executive Compensation Programs

Dashboards/Scorecards
By tracking outcomes, the committee can ensure that the program operates consistently with the established philosophy and that areas requiring attention are readily identified. When combined with comprehensive tally sheets and affirmation that all executive compensation arrangements are fully disclosed to the committee, there is a comprehensive baseline underlying the committee’s deliberations.

Bringing Competencies to Governance: Systems Helping Systems

Trustee Articles
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.