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Competency Based Governance Enters the Health Care Boardroom

The role of a health care organization trustee is getting more complicated and more sophisticated every day. Pressures are increasing simultaneously for higher quality, lower cost, more transparency and accountability, and use of evolving and ever-more-expensive technology.
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Bringing Competencies to Governance: Systems Helping Systems

Complex and diverse health care orgs require boards with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address their needs and challenges.
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When a Board Member Crosses the Line: Removing a Trustee Midterm

Holding board members accountable and addressing issues in a timely manner are essential to a successful boardroom culture.
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Taking Responsibility for Transitions at the Top

Succession planning is a high-stakes governance responsibility. The significant costs of protracted CEO searches and failed replacements are well-documented. Yet, data from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors continue to show that many boards aren’t focusing enough attention on succession planning or on getting it right.
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Effective Governance of Health Systems

Governing a health system is different than governing a stand-alone hospital. All health system boards oversee and attempt to integrate different businesses regardless of the type of system they govern.
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Strengthening Culture through Good Governance Practices

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.
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AHA 2019 National Health Care Governance Survey Report

Latest findings point to several positive trends and opportunities for improving governance structures, practices and performance. The report includes expert commentary and discussion questions for board reflection.
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Board Guidelines for a Time of Crisis

To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
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Aligning Governance and Business Models to Achieve the Best Fit

The traditional acute-care hospital is becoming just one of the entities within a larger system that probably includes primary and specialty care clinics, ambulatory care sites, behavioral health care and post-acute care. In addition, the systems may be employing physicians, developing robust philanthropic organizations, developing entrepreneurial businesses, conducting research and offering medical education.