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Quality and Patient Safety Articles
A collection of articles and toolkits from the AHA Trustee Services on quality and patient safety.
Trustee Insights Archive Editions
Trustee Insights I Archive includes previous editions of the AHA’s enhanced digital resource for hospital and health system boards and leadership. This robust monthly digital package includes insights and analysis on the changing dynamics in the health care field and what they mean for boards, as well as other rich resources to help achieve high-performing governance.
Redefining the Physician’s Role as Care Team Leader
Trustee Articles
With training and support, physicians can become effective team leaders.
The Importance of Governing Boards in Developing a Behavioral Health Strategy
Hospital and health system boards can play a significant role in developing and guiding behavioral health strategy and working with community partners to address unmet health needs in the community and expand access to services.
Purchaser Pressure: The Emerging Role of Employers in Driving Value in Healthcare
Trustee Articles
As medical costs consume an ever increasing share of businesses’ profits, self-funded employers and public purchasers of health insurance are becoming more aggressive than ever before in direct contracting with providers.
The Role of the Board in Medical Staff Credentialing
On-Demand Educational Webinars
This webinar from governance expert Jamie Orlikoff, explores the hospital board’s crucial responsibility for medical staff credentialing – one of the most difficult governance functions to perform effectively, and one of the most important board responsibilities for patient quality and safety. Become comfortable with the basics of credentialing and how to effectively oversee it to both protect patients and to assure fair, thorough and consistent treatment of physicians. Trustees will acquire a better understanding of the different but related processes involved in appointment and reappointment or physicians to the medical staff, and the delineation of clinical privileges.