Governance and Leadership Diversity

The 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, July 20-22, brings together senior health care executives, clinicians and experts in the field presenting innovative approaches for delivering better care and greater value, ensuring financial stability, addressing workforce challenges and improving the health care…
In this conversation, James Liggins, Jr., senior counsel at Warner Norcross + Judd, and vice chair of the board of directors at Bronson Healthcare, discusses his work developing a tool for board members that allows them to effectively understand and address areas of concern for their organizations.
AHA-member and non-member CEOs are being reminded to complete the AHA’s 2024 Governance Survey by mid-November.
The AHA’s 2024 Governance Survey is now available for AHA-member and non-member CEOs to complete.
Advancing health equity requires that your board of trustees align on the key efforts required to align policies, resources and programs. This survey on Board Readiness for Health Equity can be completed by trustees to establish a sense of how the Board views health equity in four key areas of…
Ensuring equitable access to quality care is part of the responsibility of hospital and health system boards to serve their communities.
The many complexities of health care today continue to challenge hospital and health system governing boards to ensure that high-quality patient care is provided to the communities they serve.
On today’s episode, I talk with Greg Bentz, board chair of Saint Luke’s Health System, based in Kansas City, Mo., and chair of the AHA Committee on Governance. We discuss the important role and dynamic work of boards of trustees as hospitals and health systems navigate tremendous challenges after…
The many pressures squeezing health care providers have all served to make the role of hospital trustees, or governing board members, more important than ever.
In 2022, the AHA launched the Black Women CEO Roundtable to create a support system and facilitate meaningful connections. Roundtable member Asha Rodriguez, vice president, facility executive with Atrium Health Cabarrus, reflects on how the roundtable’s support, encouragement and honest dialogue…