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Enhancing Governance to Foster Innovation

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By adopting practices that embrace innovation, boards are better prepared to plan for change.

Sample Guidelines for Director Selection

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The following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs. Effective governance depends on the right mixture of skills, experience, personal qualities and diversity among the members of the hospital board.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing Competencies to 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.