Strategic Planning
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, hospitals…
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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…
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…
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Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment…
By now, you, as a hospital board member, are familiar with three terms that are driving much of the transformation underway in our field: value-based care, population health management and the continuum of care. To achieve the goal of improving the quality of the services our organizations…
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…