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The Board’s Role in Advancing Healthier, More Equitable Communities
Hospital and health system board members play a critical role in prioritizing, understanding and collaborating to improve health equity.
Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
Trustee Articles
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
Governing to Achieve the Triple Aim: Broadening the Board's Perspective
Trustee Articles
The Triple Aim of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populationsand reducing per capita costs of health care is a nationally recognized goal that provides context for much of the work now underway to redesign existing systems for care, payment and collaboration to achieve better health outcomes for all Americans.
Applying Lean Principles to Board Work
Trustee Articles
Health care is ripe for change. The evidence is all around us. A majority of health care leaders recently surveyed said hospitals and health systems are most in need of disruptive innovation (New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, February 16, 2017). Consumers are taking charge of their own health and seeking providers that deliver high-quality, affordable and accessible care in ways they have come to expect from their favorite retailers. And disrupters from within and outside of health care are joining forces and competing with traditional health care organizations to give consumers what they are looking for.
Credentialing, Privileging and the Engaged Board
Trustee Articles
Education, preparation and collegiality can empower physician and lay member trustees to make fair and thoroughly vetted decisions.
Getting Strategic about Shared Decision Making
Trustee Articles
Boards can foster patient-centered care by encouraging meaningful conversations during patient encounters and by incentivizing clinicians.
Health Care 2.0 and Beyond
Trustee Articles
A three-stage framework can help boards to identify information technology priorities
Getting to the New Normal in Health Care
Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
Trustee Articles
Boards can advocate for policy changes or ways to harness community resources.