Trustee Articles

Engaging and retaining nursing staff can help drive organizational performance, including improving patient safety, satisfaction and outcomes.
With careful assessment, health care boards may consider a return to the board room in 2021.
Focusing on specific strategies and practices will support diverse recruitment on health care boards.
Continued disruption will require health care boards to adapt their governance models to adapt to the unprecedented times.
An interview with Robert Trestman of Carilion Clinic about how governing boards and leadership teams can work with their communities to develop strategies and improve access to behavioral health care.
Facing a new reality, health care providers will need to make major changes in care models, cost structure and the use of digital technology to recover.
Adding diverse members to a hospital’s or health system’s board can change the board’s culture for the better.
Using an effective, well-developed board self-assessment process can enhance governance performance.
Assembling a team of health care providers from diverse professional backgrounds has the power to improve value for hospitals and for patients particularly during COVID-19.