Articles
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
Becoming a visionary board
Hospital trustees sometimes question how they can determine a strategic future when so much in health care is changing and the future is seemingly unknown and unpredictable. But this is precisely the time when boards must be at their best. Forward-thinking, visionary boards anticipate potential futures. They prepare for and embrace the changes ahead.
Governance Effectiveness
Trustee reappointment
When hospital or health system boards think about key practices that support effective governance, considerations such as board recruitment and selection, orientation and continuing education, and board evaluation often come to mind. Rarely, it seems, does board member reappointment make the list.
Board Composition and Selection
Engaging Millennials in Governance
Because of this generation’s size and increasing influence, Millennials are being surveyed and studied to better understand what makes them tick and how they may play a role in fundamentally reshaping how we live, work—and govern—our organizations.
Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning
Improved joint venture performance through enhanced governance
Joint ventures in healthcare are more diverse and complex, involving partnerships with pharma, medical device companies, and research organizations.
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning
Partnering in the new health care environment
Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
New competencies are required of hospitals and health systems to thrive in the new environment — clinical integration; consumer, clinical and business intelligence; operational efficiency; purchaser relationships; and optimized network development.
Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning, Workforce
Board support: Is it time for dedicated governance leadership?
Trustee talking points
- As hospitals and health systems grow increasingly complex, they are increasingly creating dedicated support staff for their boards.
- Full-time governance leaders can devote themselves to serving and advancing board work and a governance program.
- There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the numbers, responsibilities and titles of governance support staff and leaders.
- A governance leader's qualifications should include interpersonal skills, the appropriate education and a desire to stay on top of the health care field.
Population/Community Health
Building Community Health
In pursuit of its longstanding vision of a “society of healthy communities where all individuals reach their highest potential for health,” the American Hospital Association supports hospitals, health systems and related organizations in engaging in strategic initiatives that together create a path toward advancing health in America.