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Demystifying and Optimizing the Executive Session
The executive session provides an important venue for maintaining board independence and protecting confidentiality as the governing body carries out its fiduciary duties.
Radical Decision Making for Hospital and System Boards
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.
Chair File: Supporting the Board’s Pivotal Role in Advancing Health
Today’s hospital and health system board members collaborate with leadership to address workforce shortages, recommend ways to mitigate cybersecurity risks, discuss the pros and cons of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and provide strategic guidance on quality, safety and many other critical issues.
From Surviving to Thriving
The board’s obligation is to consider all options to achieve its mission, including gleaning lessons from the movie “Grease!”
Future-ready Boards
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Assessing Overall Board Effectiveness: Key Elements for Success to Consider
Investing time now in evaluating and enhancing board effectiveness can accelerate organizational results for years to come.
Shared Governance Imperative
Just as the health industry continues to shift care delivery from a volume- to a value-based model, so too must the health care board evolve beyond its traditional fiduciary and core governance responsibilities to encompass a more strategic and global view. The success of this evolving model depends on shared governance—a stronger alignment and engagement among the board, physician leadership and management.
Using Technology to Enhance Board Education
Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.
Exploring a Variety of Ways to Transform System Governance
Governance restructuring efforts of eight health systems provide lessons on redefining what it means to be a community board.