Strategic Planning

A rural Oregon hospital, Sky Lakes Medical Center, is jumping into the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Advanced Alternative Payment Models, which are the elite track of Medicare’s new clinician payment system, the Quality Payment Program. Providers in Advanced…
Conference Rural health care leaders to meet in Phoenix next month The American Hospital Association and Health Forum’s 2017 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference from Feb. 5 to 8 in Phoenix will bring together top practitioners and thinkers to share strategies and resources for…
Trustee talking points More and more hospitals are joining larger health systems. Boards that want their hospital to remain independent have a number of strategies they can follow. Among them are maintaining and developing a strong corps of physicians and specialists, paying attention to…
Millions of Americans in both urban and rural communities are unable to access essential health care services. A new report from the American Hospital Association, Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, offers nine innovative ways to improve access for vulnerable…
Trustee talking points Health care is undergoing rapid transformation, and developments in 2017 should prove no exception. Hospital trustees need to stay on top of trends sweeping the field. New payment structures, cost pressures and system integration — combined with …
Wherever you fit into health care — whatever kind of hospital or health system, ambulatory clinic, physician office, public health department, post-acute care provider or any other entity in the care continuum — no doubt you’ve been a little jittery these past several years…
Trustee talking points Provider-sponsored health plans offer a good way for hospitals and health systems to take on risk as they move toward value-base care.
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,…
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…