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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.
Sample Performance Standards for Evaluating Annual Incentive Plans
As health care organizations face a number of emerging challenges, the compensation committee of the not-for- profit hospital and health system board is well served to review and update the executive compensation program periodically.
Balanced Scorecard for Achieving Leadership Convergence and Accelerating Performance Improvement
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.
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.
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 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.
Governance Policy Statement on Distinguishing Policy from Operations
To clarify the difference between the board’s policy making responsibilities and management’s operational responsibilities.
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.
Sample Quality Dashboards
Hospitals and health systems create quality dashboards in different ways. Please see examples from two organizations.
Quality and Professional Affairs Committee Charter
The Quality Committee assists the board in overseeing and ensuring the quality of clinical care, patient safety, and customer service provided throughout the organization.