Leadership
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…
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-…
The 2017 AHA Environmental Scan is designed to help hospital and health system leaders better understand the health care landscape.
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…
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…
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…
If they didn’t know it already, members of the hospital field’s C-suites do now: Keeping health care data out of the hands of cybercriminals is harder than ever.
Thanks to stories in recent months about the escalation in the types of acts criminals will take to profit from stealing…
We’re four months away from the presidential election, and a lot of Americans are already worn down by the nastiness, name-calling and inanity. Those of us with a low tolerance for watching grown-ups make wild-eyed accusations on TV may have to go back to reading books again. How extreme…
Early in your education, you learned the difference between cause and effect. Cause is why something happens. Effect is what happens or, better stated, the consequences.
Unfortunately, cause and effect are often confused in business, particularly when it comes to retirement benefits planning.…
In today's environment of change and transformation, some nonprofit hospitals and health systems are considering the possibility of selling to for-profit providers. A central concern for boards engaged in strategic deliberations about a potential sale is preserving the charitable mission,…