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Board Policies

2018 Sample Board Composition Policy

Board and Committee Composition and Succession Planning...
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: The Board’s Role in Quality and Patient Safety

Hospital and health system governing boards have a critical leadership and oversight role in quality and patient safety.
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: It Starts at the Top: How Boards Can Prioritize Health Equity

Trustees are in a unique leadership position for overseeing a health equity strategy for their hospitals and health systems.
Dashboards/Scorecards

Sample Patient Experience Dashboards

The sample dashboards that follow provide examples for a multihospital system as well as a single community hospital.
Position Descriptions

Position Description for a Health System or Hospital Board Member

The board has three legal duties: a duty of obedience to the charitable purpose of the organization, a duty of loyalty, to act based on best interests of the organization, and a duty of care. The role of the board is to govern, not manage, the organization.
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: The Board’s Role in Addressing Societal Factors that Influence Health

For hospitals to improve health equity for patients and communities they serve, they must address the non-medical factors that drive health outcomes.
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: How Boards Contribute to a Safe Workplace and Community

This brief intends to raise awareness about violence as a public health issue and provides resources for boards to work with hospital and health system leaders to build safer workplaces and communities.
Board Checklists

Current High-Performance Governance Practices

For boards to participate in shaping their new organization, they must be currently performing at an extremely high level. The following is a list of four practices that hospital and health system boards must be engaged in today, in order to be successful in the future.
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: How Boards Can Support Workforce Behavioral Health

This document, developed by AHA Trustee Services and AHA’s Behavioral Health teams, intends to educate and raise awareness for trustees about suicide prevention and the role that hospital and health system boards can play in this very important public health issue.
Boardroom Briefs

Boardroom Brief: Encouraging a Risk-Aware Culture to Drive Value

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a strategic business discipline that supports the identification, assessment and management of risks. ERM can advance internal control of material risk and allow an organization to generate greater value from strategic and operational activities. To achieve these advantages, organizations must embed ERM elements into their culture and structure and examine the nature of the risks they face.