Governance Effectiveness
By now, every health care leader understands that the Affordable Care Act is catalyzing a complete transformation of the field, including reimbursement arrangements, business models and mechanisms for delivering care. This means that we can no longer look in the rearview mirror to inform future…
By now, you, as a hospital board member, are familiar with three terms that are driving much of the transformation underway in our field: value-based care, population health management and the continuum of care. To achieve the goal of improving the quality of the services our organizations…
The decision to align with another health care organization is among the most important, if not the most important, undertakings for a hospital board. Selecting the right partner, strategy, timing and structure all play important roles in determining the ultimate success of an organization and a…
The political conventions are over, and election season is in full swing. Candidates for office at nearly every level of government will spend the next two months talking to voters and trying to persuade them that they are the best choice.
As you encounter candidates for Congress —…
Trustee talking points
Collaboratives or alliances of neighboring health systems are an alternative to formal consolidation.
They provide a way for systems to gain efficiencies of scale without losing independence through a merger.
The American Hospital Association board of trustees has elected eight members to serve three-year terms on the board beginning Jan. 1. In addition, the board recently appointed two new trustees to serve partial terms. The elected trustees are:
Vanessa Ervin, past chair and current board member…
It is hard to imagine an industry more turbulent than health care or a position more demanding than hospital board chair. Beyond the challenges of providing oversight for a highly complex delivery system, the chair must stay abreast of changing regulations and increased competition, not to…
Trustee talking points
An ever-increasing amount of data is available for health care leaders to use in making decisions about drugs, devices and procedures.
The flood of data can lead to poor results if it's not interpreted correctly.
Board members need to be alert to randomness…
Hospitals and health systems have the ability to shape more effective health care through choices they make about managing their own employee health plans.
John Combes, M.D., president of the American Hospital Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance and the AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president, will retire in October after almost 12 years leading the association’s governance and physician leadership efforts.