Articles
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.
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.
Governance Effectiveness, Leadership
Navigating the health care waters
Over the past few years, and especially this year, many health care trustees are feeling like they are on a whitewater rafting trip. They are in a craft with some people they know well and others they do not know at all; the water is swirling them around; and they don’t know which way is forward. Some even fear for their lives.
Governance Effectiveness, Leadership, Strategic Planning
Culture conflict and strategic partnerships
The not-for-profit hospital board and the for-profit clinic board had agreed to create a separate board for the new cancer center joint venture, but negotiations were bogged down. The existing boards had rushed to do the deal because of competition, and now problems arose as they tried to determine the new board’s composition and functioning.