Transforming Governance
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is dedicated to transforming health care governance through the work of its Trustee Services.
Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.
Boards can provide tremendous value and crucial support to their hospitals and health systems during the COVID-19 crisis.
To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system boards play a critical role to assure plans, policies and resources are in place.
Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.
Governance restructuring efforts of eight health systems provide lessons on redefining what it means to be a community board.
For effective cultural stewardship, boards need to promote behavioral expectations for patient care and make sure that espoused values and norms are respected throughout the organization.
What is the board’s role in shaping culture? Several health care leaders offer advice that reflects the diversity of their experiences.
An external review of workplace operations produces a Leadership Letter with observations and recommendations for continuous improvement, followed by open discussion among the board, CEO and top management.
The seismic forces currently roiling health care present boards with a new set of profoundly consequential strategic options. These often involve significant risk, major mission shifts, and challengingly short windows of opportunity.