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Board Guidelines for a Time of Crisis
Trustee Articles
To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
COVID-19 Pathways to Recovery
The compendium includes questions and checklists for hospitals and health systems to use in working toward a safe, orderly return to providing comprehensive health care services to their communities.
When Systems Change: Breaking Free from Traditional Governance Models - the New Optimal?
Trustee Articles
Health systems and hospitals are becoming increasingly complex, expanding beyond the traditional hospital/parent company model to include new structures and strategic partnerships to support a wide range of care for patients in their communities.
The Trustee's Role in Advocacy: Telling Your Hospital Story
Trustee Articles
As community leaders, trustees are a powerful voice for their hospitals or health systems when it comes to advocacy. They can offer legislators “real life” insights and perspectives into the challenges facing patients and community members in the hospital’s service area, as well as how legislation and regulation will affect the women and men who work every day to fulfill their hospitals promise of help, hope and healing.
CEO Selection in a COVID-19 World
Though hospital and health system boards have always evaluated many factors when selecting a new executive leader, the coronavirus experience calls for considering other important elements.
Stewards of the Patient Experience: The Trustee’s Key Role
Trustee Articles
The patient experience reflects the organization’s culture. The board must foster a culture that supports employees and providers to deliver the best possible experience time after time.
Strengthening Culture through Good Governance Practices
Trustee Articles
For effective cultural stewardship, boards need to promote behavioral expectations for patient care
and make sure that espoused values and norms are respected throughout the organization.
Small City, Big Champions
Trustee Articles
Recruiting board members is a challenge for every hospital and health system, but the task is particularly difficult in small communities. At Benefits Health System, Great Falls, Mont., our pool of candidates is largely limited to the city’s 60,000 residents, despite the fact that we are the tertiary referral center for a population of 250,000 across nearly 40,000 square miles of rural Montana.
Sample Committee Charter
Trustee Articles
This is a sample committee charter: people and culture committee.
What Hospital Board Members Need to Know: A Seven-Point Framework for Navigating COVID-19
Trustee Articles
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system boards play a critical role to assure plans, policies and resources are in place.