Articles
Population/Community Health, Community Benefit
The Trustee's Role in Advocacy: Telling Your Hospital Story
By Andy Stern
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.