Governance Effectiveness
Trustee talking points
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…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year set the ambitious goal of tying 30 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments to quality or value through alternative payment models by the end of 2016 and 50 percent by the end of 2018.
The agency announced in May that it had already…
Trustees of nonprofit health care organizations appreciate that revenue from fee-for-service reimbursement has been the basis for keeping their institutions financially sustainable over many years. Such revenue has provided capital to start new programs, build facilities, recruit physicians and…
Many hospital and health system boards and their leadership teams are at an interesting juncture where each is heavily reliant on the other for strategic support and execution. They have a shared goal of successfully moving their organizations forward at a time when the field is in an overwhelming…
Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships are crucial parts of transforming health care and building a "culture of health."
The not-for-profit hospital board and the for-profit clinic board had agreed to create a separate board for the new cancer center joint venture, but negotiations were bogged down. The existing boards had rushed to do the deal because of competition, and now problems arose as they tried to determine…
Governance
AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees
The American Hospital Association board of trustees in July approved a plan to strengthen the AHA’s role in supporting good governance in a changing health care environment. The plan is intended to broaden opportunities for…
Trustee talking points
Integrated hospitals and health systems hope to achieve all of the benefits of scale, in efficiency, quality and scope.
Legacy governing board systems often stand in the way of the changes required to accomplish this, particularly when it comes to leadership.
A well-…
It is generally accepted that executive development and succession planning are critical tools in organizational development.
Less discussed, however, is what happens when the executive development process leads to a young CEO taking the helm of a complex health care system — often filled…