By fostering a strong organizational culture and building interdisciplinary care teams, hospitals can enable their team members to meet their mission and prevent burnout.
Trustee Services serves as the hub for the AHA’s broad array of efforts to raise the performance of hospital and health system boards and to help boards navigate the transforming health care landscape.
In this video, Greg Bentz, board chair of BJC HealthCare in Kansas City, Mo., shares the benefits of integrating behavioral and physical health care, and why it matters to hospital and health system boards.
Schonay Barnett-Jones, a trustee at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a member of the AHA Board of Trustees and Committee on Governance, shares how board members at pediatric hospitals can help improve the health and well-being of children.
Two rural health care leaders at Guadalupe County Hospital and Oklahoma Hospital Association assess how the conversion to Rural Emergency Hospital is proceeding, and how to build trust and buy-in from patients and communities.
The AONL Nurse Leader Core Competencies provide the framework for the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with effective leadership--from first time leaders to experienced executives.
Article explores successes and challenges providers have experienced in aligning care delivery models with alternative payment models, and that provides lessons for those in the midst of this transition.
Chris DeRienzo, M.D., senior vice president and chief physician executive at the AHA shares what he has learned from visiting with members, and how they are innovating unique solutions to combat current health care challenges.
This brief focuses on raising awareness for trustees about suicide prevention and provides useful resources for boards to initiate a conversation about reducing the risks of and preventing suicides in the health care workforce.
This blog highlights the need for board members to build knowledge and understanding on quality and performance improvement, and their pivotal role in offering well-informed, strategic counsel and oversight for hospitals and health systems.
AHA talks with Dr. David Perlstein, president and chief executive officer for SBH Health and Dr. David Zaas, chief executive officer for MUSC Health about how hospital leaders and clinicians can come together to build value by scaling strategies that lower cost, improve outcomes and enhance patient experiences.
This report by AHA Physician Alliance summaries ways hospital leaders are integrating talent development and succession planning into their culture and operation.
In this Trustee Insights article, Cathy Frank, M.D., chair of Henry Ford Health’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services shares about how the health system is addressing suicide prevention, a vital public health issue that governing boards should know more about.