Articles
Governance Effectiveness
Supporting High-Performing Boards: Dedicated Governance Leadership
Addresses how to determine the level of governance leadership your organization needs to build and sustain high-performing boards.
Governance Effectiveness
Coaching: A Critical Tool for Board Chair Development
Making coaching available to an incoming board chair can build the chair's capacity to lead the board effectively.
Board Meetings, Transforming Governance
Applying Lean Principles to Board Work
By Mary Totten
St. Charles Health System’s embrace of Lean practices led to a new culture and revitalized governance model
Population/Community Health, Transforming Governance
Forging the Link Between Community and Health
By Mary Totten, Dan Regan
The AHA’s 2017 report documents how leading health care organizations and their boards, in collaboration with other community partners, are beginning to expand efforts to addressthe myriad of social determinants that significantly affect the health of their communities.
Board Composition and Selection
Bringing Competencies into Governance: Systems Helping Systems
By Mary Totten
As health care organizations become more complex and diverse, their governance requires individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address the needs and challenges of these evolving enterprises. As their organizations mature, effective boards update how their members are selected, often moving away from informal, relationship based board composition to a more intentional, competency-based process.
Board Composition and Selection
Bringing Competencies to Governance: Systems Helping Systems
By Mary Totten
Complex and diverse health care orgs require boards with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address their needs and challenges.
Board Support, Board Infrastructure
Supporting High-Performing Boards: Is It Time for Dedicated Governance Leadership?
Some 66 percent of U.S. hospitals are now part of health systems, according to 2016 survey data from the American Hospital Association. As systems continue to grow in scope and complexity, their governance often follows suit.
Board Responsibilities, Transforming Governance
Improved Joint Venture Performance Through Enhanced Governance
In today’s health care environment, the need for collaboration has perhaps never been stronger