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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.

Working together, hospital and health system boards and executive teams should examine the pandemic’s implications for their organizations, to set strategic direction and better serve patients and communities.

To address gaps in care, hospitals and health systems are analyzing and sharing data and deploying outreach and resources through cross-sector partnerships.

As hospitals and health systems across the country begin and continue the “recovery” process during the COVID-19 outbreak, the AHA is keeping you updated with the latest information and resources. An important area to address is the role of governing boards as hospitals and health systems resume delivering comprehensive health care services.

Health care leaders and policy experts surveyed recently predict that COVID-19’s impact will be deep and long-lasting.

During and moving beyond the pandemic, hospital and health system boards and executive teams need to keep community stakeholders engaged to forge a better state of health in their communities.

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.

Disparities in COVID-19 outcomes serve as an important reminder for trustees and senior leaders to reinforce the work in our communities to address underlying causes of health disparities.

Hospital and health system trustees can help move forward an evidence-based framework to achieve better health for an aging population with complex care needs.

Changing the mindset of health care CEOs and boards to envision the board’s potential is the first step in a long trek to turn the board into a strategic asset.

While continuing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, hospital and health system boards can use this experience to strengthen leadership, engagement and trust.

The AHA has released a new video thanking the women and men of America's hospitals and health systems for their heroic efforts to care for patients and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From the moment the COVID-19 outbreak became reality, Coffey Health System (CHS) staff from every department hit the ground running. It wasn’t a question of if it would impact their small community of Burlington, Kansas, but when.

A new national initiative allows donors to direct contributions to their local hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Continually improving community health should be part of the DNA of a health care organization and its board.

Hospital and health system boards can harness the power of philanthropy during the COVID-19 crisis.

This podcast highlights issues such as: prospective board authorizations for emergency spending and policy modifications; logistics for emergency board meetings and decision making; how boards can support and equally importantly not be a burden to management; clarifying emergency authority between system and subsidiary boards; what boards and their members should NOT do; the need for deeper executive and board succession planning; and others.

Boards should assess the impact of change on their organization’s executive compensation program and committee practices.

Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.

Health care leaders are learning more about burnout and working together to better address it.