Governance Effectiveness
Throughout the year, the American Hospital Association urges hospital leaders, including trustees, to advocate with their federal legislators on various issues, including protecting patients from cuts to hospital funding, reducing red tape and decreasing the administrative burden on hospitals…
During the course of my 50-year health care management career, it has been my experience that the most successful CEOs maintain an effective working relationship with their board.
Trustee talking points
As health care becomes more complex and shifts its emphasis from volume to value, decisions on buying technology also need to become more sophisticated.
When considering new clinical technology, hospitals need to pay attention to its interoperabillity —…
The role of board oversight for compliance and ethics and the relationship between the chief compliance officer and the board are critical ingredients for the success of a hospital or health care provider’s compliance program.
As hospitals and health systems assess how they can attract and retain millennials in their operations, hospital boards are asking the same question.
Directors and trustees serving health care organizations, whether investor-owned or nonprofit, bear responsibility for their organization’s corporate culture and, with that, enormous risk.
And most feel less than prepared, lacking the information they need. That’s the key finding…
America’s hospitals are committed to sharing meaningful, accurate hospital quality information with the patients they serve. Hospitals also support well-designed pay-for-performance programs that can help move the health care delivery system from volume to value.
At the same time, however,…
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As computing technology has moved into nearly every part of the hospital and its operations, opportunities for cyberattack have multiplied.
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly vulnerable not just to isolated cyber incidents but to far-reaching cyber crises.…
At Trustee, we strive to provide practical tools you, as a board member, can use to better understand and respond to the many changes happening in health care today.
One of our key goals is to enrich the conversations that trustees have among themselves and with their senior management team. We…