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Making the case for community health workers

Spectrum Health, a Michigan health care system serving both urban and nonurban areas, is striving to quantify the benefits that community health workers provide to patients with chronic conditions.

Writing an innovation playbook for health system success

Innovation can fuel the organizational agility necessary to achieve breakthrough levels of value and performance in health care.

A new health system means new governance

Trustee talking points Integrated hospitals and health systems hope to achieve all of the benefits of scale, in efficiency, quality and scope. Legacy governing board syst

Taking Responsibility for Transitions at the Top

Succession planning is a high-stakes governance responsibility. The significant costs of protracted CEO searches and failed replacements are well-documented.

How to Grow the Amount of Women on Hospital Boards

In many ways, women are on the front line in health care — as consumers, employees and family caretakers. They possess firsthand knowledge of community health issues and needs.

A boards mission, vision and values

How would your directors answer the question, “What’s our governing board’s mission?”

When violence hits home: Lessons for hospitals

Trustee talking points In the aftermath of a number of shootings nationwide, hospitals are re-evaluating how well-prepared they are for hand

Rethinking the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Reducing readmissions is an important way to improve quality and lower health care spending, and hospitals are making significant progress.

Board support: Is it time for dedicated governance leadership?

Trustee talking points As hospitals and health systems grow increasingly complex, they are increasingly creating dedicated support staff for their boards. Full-

Housing programs lay foundation for health

Trustee talking points Homelessness is a growing problem in many communities, and many health systems are stepping up to be part of the solution. In the era&n