Governance Effectiveness
Making coaching available to an incoming board chair can build the chair's capacity to lead the board effectively.
Hospitals and systems must understand the threats posed by market disruptors and craft specific strategies to protect their missions.
The template is designed to help a hospital or health system develop profiles of disruptive competitors that are already in its service area (or are anticipated to enter its service area). An interactive MS Word document of this template with fields is available.
This webinar outlines key questions for boards to ask and approaches to take to clarify an explicit role and job description for the board chair.
This issue marks the final issue of Trustee magazine.
A year ago, the American Hospital Association launched a new model of trustee education for our members, one focused on emerging challenges in the health care field and designed to engage trustees in our grassroots advocacy to support…
Trustee magazine will cease to publish after the June issue.
A year ago, the American Hospital Association launched a new model of trustee education for our members, one focused on emerging challenges in the health care field and designed to engage trustees in our grassroots advocacy to…
In today’s environment of health care transformation, hospital and health system boards must evaluate every aspect of their governance processes, practices, meetings and composition to ensure being well-prepared for the changes ahead.
Governing boards must overcome 10 common barriers to…
The American Hospital Association’s 2018 Leadership Summit, "Advancing Affordable Care and Promoting Value," to be held July 26-28 in San Diego, will offer hospital and health system trustees dedicated programming to connect the work of governance to the challenges of…
Many boards and executive teams of independent hospitals or health systems find themselves struggling with how to evaluate what role partnerships or affiliations should play in their organization’s strategy. These teams recognize the importance of evaluating their affiliation strategy options…
When hospital or health system boards think about key practices that support effective governance, considerations such as board recruitment and selection, orientation and continuing education, and board evaluation often come to mind. Rarely, it seems, does board member reappointment make the list.