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New Approaches to Effective Board Decision Making
Feb 14, 2019
Seven techniques can help support and strengthen your board's decision-making processes.
Balanced Scorecard for Achieving Leadership Convergence and Accelerating Performance Improvement
Feb 14, 2019
While your organization may strive to improve safety, patient experience, workforce engagement and clinical quality as discrete performance domains, your leadership — and your resources — may be convened around multiple strategies and action plans. Without a single strategy that aligns improvement efforts and acts on the interdependencies of vertical domains, siloed planning can undermine workforce coordination and sustainable change.
Governance, Leadership & Management Grid
Feb 14, 2019
By Stephen Mansfield
While a clear, bright line between the roles of governance and management does not exist for every issue that boards and orga
Making Effective Decisions in Times of Uncertainty and Change: What Boards Need to Know
Feb 14, 2019
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Making Effective Decisions in Times of Uncertainty and Change: What Boards Need to Know
Trustee Involvement
Feb 14, 2019
Trustee Involvement
The AHA has numerous avenues for trustee involvement and participation in the Association’s governance, grassroots advocacy, policy development and field leaders
Artificial Intelligence - The Next Revolution in Information Technology
Feb 14, 2019
Boards need to understand artificial intelligence to evaluate its evolving benefits and risks.
Getting Strategic about Shared Decision Making
Feb 14, 2019
Boards can foster patient-centered care by encouraging meaningful conversations during patient encounters and by incentivizing clinicians.
Governance Leadership of Quality
Feb 14, 2019
A diagnostic tool and organization assessment can help boards address barriers to effective quality oversight.
Applying Lean Principles to Board Work
Feb 14, 2019
Health care is ripe for change. The evidence is all around us. A majority of health care leaders recently surveyed said hospitals and health systems are most in need of disruptive innovation (New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, February 16, 2017). Consumers are taking charge of their own health and seeking providers that deliver high-quality, affordable and accessible care in ways they have come to expect from their favorite retailers. And disrupters from within and outside of health care are joining forces and competing with traditional health care organizations to give consumers what they are looking for.
Standard Work for Governance Example
Feb 14, 2019
Standard Work for Governance Example
Source: St. Charles Health System. Used with Permission.
Who Gives to Health Care Organizations?
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar considers who gives to health care, why they are drawn to the cause and how organizations can support engagement of those most likely to give.
Who Are Your Next Generation Leaders?
Feb 14, 2019
To prepare for leadership succession, boards must identify talented leaders within the organization, take steps to retain them and develop them well for future roles.
Committee on Governance
Feb 14, 2019
Committee on Governance (COG)
The Committee on Governance (COG) is one of several advisory committees of the AHA Board.
Board Meetings: How to Drive Effective Board Dynamics
Feb 14, 2019
Webinar
Board Meetings: How to Drive Effective Board Dynamics
The format of a board agenda can either drive effective strategic discussion or can stifle it
Understanding Affordability and Value in Health Care
Feb 14, 2019
Affordability is one of the most important challenges influencing Americans’ ability to access health care. However, no single, agreed-upon definition of health care affordability exists because it is influenced by many complex factors.
CEO Succession Planning - Your Must Dos
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar examines the best practices of CEO succession planning in a health care setting. Bill Westwood, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry presents a thorough description of the process to follow to ensure that succession planning is smooth, efficient and objective. He offers specific recommendations for the roles that each party plays in the process, and what risks should be avoided. Board members, incumbent CEO's and potential CEO's will learn how to prepare for and execute succession planning in their organizations.
Understanding the True Cost of Clinical Technology
Feb 14, 2019
For the past few years, “prices” in health care have generated some eye-popping headlines in the press — most notably drug prices. It is not news to anyone in health care that the prices providers pay for drugs and for health care technology seem to rise every year. Further, providers face the daunting task of needing to buy ever-increasing amounts of technology just to keep pace with clinical innovation.
Foundation Board Selection / Recruitment / Onboarding
Feb 14, 2019
Foundation Board Selection / Recruitment / Onboarding
The Unique Influence of Foundation & Governing Board Members in Advancing Philanthropy
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar explores elements of fund development where volunteer leaders are most effective, what enables this effectiveness and how trustees and board members can optimize their engagement in advancing philanthropy.
Time for a New Model of Governance
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar makes the case that the time has come to develop a new model of hospital and health system governance. Presenter Jamie Orlikoff discusses four phases in the evolution of the current model of governance and ongoing market and organizational pressures that make it difficult for the current model to withstand, and he suggests that these pressures are likely to deepen as their pace, scope and scale accelerate.
Achieving the Best Fit: Using Competencies in Trustee Selection
Feb 14, 2019
Topics: Using Competencies in Trustee Selection, Competency-Based Trustee Selection in Action, Using Competencies to Transform Governance
Sample Chief Executive Officer Performance Appraisal Process and Assessment Form
Feb 7, 2019
The following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.
Sample Guidelines for Director Selection
Feb 7, 2019
The following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs. Effective governance depends on the right mixture of skills, experience, personal qualities and diversity among the members of the hospital board.
Strategic Governance Practices for Turbulent Times
Feb 7, 2019
“No battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy,” goes a military saying, expressed in recent years by Colin Powell.
The expression is worth remembering as hospitals and health systems embrace bold strategies to participate in the industry-wide
economic shift from rewarding volume to holding providers accountable for the value they deliver.
Building an Age-friendly Health Care System
Feb 14, 2019
A growing movement of health care providers is systematically spreading best practices in the care of older adults.
Accelerating Progress Through Leadership Integration
Feb 14, 2019
Sustainable change requires a strategy to align improvement efforts and act on the interdependencies of four performance domains.
Empowering a Healthy Culture
Feb 14, 2019
Boards need to assess troubled areas in their organizations, set goals for improving the culture, and hold leaders accountable for change.
Board Orientation Best Practices: Strategies for Onboarding New Trustees Effectively
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar recording offers a different approach to new member orientation. You’ll hear about a set of action steps that can help your organization develop a conscious, ongoing orientation process – one that helps the entire board form a high-functioning team much faster as each new trustee comes on.
Engaging Boards in Disruptive Innovation
Feb 14, 2019
Hospitals and systems must understand the threats posed by market disruptors and craft specific strategies to protect their missions.
Health Care Governance on the Eve of Disruption
Feb 14, 2019
Corporate boards, across industry sectors, are increasingly being called upon to support management as the company responds to how innovative competitors “disrupt” their existing business model. Blockbuster, Borders and ESPN are prime examples of established companies that have been pulled into the financial undertow created by nimble disruptors.
Reaching for the Stars: Health Care Governance Best Practices
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar provides specific examples of and practical tools used by the highest-performing boards as they move toward five categories of advanced governance practices: Visionary, Strategic and ‘System’-focused; Nimble, Streamlined and Clear; Intentional, Disciplined and Consistent; Competency-based, Educated and Evaluated; and Objective, Transparent and Accountable.
Building (and Maintaining) Your Best Board
Feb 14, 2019
Looking for tips to create – and keep – the board of your dreams? Wondering if that dream can ever become a reality? Curious to know how you can possibly create the board of your dreams if your board members are appointed or placed on your board rather than elected by current directors?
The Role of the Board in Medical Staff Credentialing
Feb 14, 2019
This webinar from governance expert Jamie Orlikoff, explores the hospital board’s crucial responsibility for medical staff credentialing – one of the most difficult governance functions to perform effectively, and one of the most important board responsibilities for patient quality and safety. Become comfortable with the basics of credentialing and how to effectively oversee it to both protect patients and to assure fair, thorough and consistent treatment of physicians. Trustees will acquire a better understanding of the different but related processes involved in appointment and reappointment or physicians to the medical staff, and the delineation of clinical privileges.
Sample Board Chair Position Charter
Feb 7, 2019
This chair position charter is grounded on a model of healthcare organization governance forwarded in Board Work by Dennis Pointer and James E. Orlikoff (Jossey-Bass,1999).