Enterprise Risk Management: Moving Beyond Compliance If 2020 has taught us anything, it is to never say “never.” One year ago, how many healthcare leaders or futurists would have guessed 2020 would be the year for the COVID-19 pandemic and its cascading effects on...

Addressing “Wicked Problems”: The Board’s Role Countless articles over the past two years have explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on seemingly every facet of our healthcare system—declining hospital and physician office volumes concurrent with intense...

Time to Declutter and Refocus Many, many articles and white papers have been written over the past decade about health system– subsidiary board relationships (or their dysfunction), clarifying the roles of subsidiary hospital boards and the roles they can and should...

Revisiting Strategy: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic As COVID-19 initially swept across the country, many health system leaders rightfully operated in survival mode, putting long-term strategy on the back burner as they addressed unprecedented urgent daily...

Practical Tips for Better Hybrid Board Meetings As COVID-19 swept across the country in 2020, most hospital and health system boards began conducting virtual or hybrid board meetings. The latter refers to a meeting in which some members attend in person and others...

COVID-19 and Executive Succession Management The pandemic has exposed the need to improve planning for executive turnover. The COVID-19 pandemic has made executive succession planning even more critical for the board, considering that only 45% have a plan in place for...

Preserving Critical Board Functions during the COVID-19 Crisis he healthcare industry is facing levels of disruption and uncertainty that most leaders have never experienced. Top revenue-generating activities have been suspended, those on the frontlines are challenged...