Trustee Articles
When Strategy Informs Structure: Successful Board Oversight of Physician Integration at Mercy Health
The road to integration of hospitals and physicians has been a rocky one for many health care organizations. Failed attempts to integrate in the 1990s resulted from the realization that operating physician practices was very different from operating hospitals, leaving many health care providers…
Most boards and governance experts say boards should be meaningfully involved in shaping and ultimately approving the strategic plan and major decisions—but if they try to develop plans, they’re bordering on management. The tricky part is distinguishing meaningful involvement from development.
High-performing boards across the country have made great strides in enhancing their effectiveness and efficiency.
Here are 10 steps for optimizing the way a board uses its meeting time.
The highest-performing boards across the country share certain key characteristics that can be grouped into five categories - visionary, nimble, intentional, competency-based and objective.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are occurring throughout health care, with transactions happening among entities of all provider types and sizes.(According to the latest analysis by Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, 49 transactions were announced in the first half of 2015, up from 43…
Securing board approval for a major new project can be a long and tricky process when the CEO proposing it isn’t sure which criteria trustees will use, and the board is equally uncertain what the yardsticks ought to be.
At Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., President and CEO Chandler…
Patient satisfaction scores are important metrics; they draw attention to the subjective experience of patients who received care from a hospital.
This is a sample committee charter: people and culture committee.
The governance challenges raised in the post-Enron environment are motivating many boards and their general counsels to draft new board policies and tighten up existing ones.