Worksheet: Committee Meetings
Worksheet: Committee Meetings As boards move to meeting only four or six times per year, a robust committee structure becomes even more essential. However, an unintended consequence of having strong, robust committees is that they can become so focused on their...
Driving Value through Strategic Alliances
Driving Value through Strategic Alliances Physician offices, hospitals, and health systems have long been synonymous with “healthcare,” under a system in which payers essentially exchanged payment for services rendered. Driven by our nation’s largest payer, Medicare,...
Streamlining and Aligning System Governance
Streamlining and Aligning System Governance Significant opportunity remains for system boards to enhance governance effectiveness. Health systems are transforming themselves at lightning speed to achieve the Triple Aim, deliver on their brand promise and manage...
Leveraging Board Effectiveness: Increasing Committee Communication
Leveraging Board Effectiveness: Increasing Committee Communication Communication among the various board committees at a hospital or health system can be tricky. Too often, committees find themselves working in their own silos rather than coordinating together for the...
Moving Beyond the Basics of Strategic Planning: The Board’s Role
Moving Beyond the Basics of Strategic Planning: The Board’s Role “Strategy is a word that gets used in so many ways with so many meanings that it can end up being meaningless.”1 This quotation by Harvard Business School professor and well-known author Michael Porter...
Clarifying Board Roles: Emerging Best Practices in System vs. Subsidiary Board Duties
Clarifying Board Roles: Emerging Best Practices in System vs. Subsidiary Board Duties Last winter, I facilitated a Governance Institute educational session with hospital board members entitled “Board Basics for Effective Governance.” Expecting most participants to be...
Competency-Based Board Recruitment: How to Get the Right People on the Board
Competency-Based Board Recruitment: How to Get the Right People on the Board Recent Governance Institute research showed a positive correlation between a hospital’s or health system’s quality scores and the board’s use of competency-based criteria when selecting new...
Board Orientation Manual
Board Orientation Manual: Providing Essential Knowledge and Solutions to Achieve Excellence in Healthcare Governance, Fifth Ed. As a new board member, you are beginning a period of service that brings with it prestige, credibility, influence, and personal...
The Right Fit: Stand-Alones and Small Systems Must Get the Questions Right
The Right Fit: Stand-Alones and Small Systems Must Get the Questions Right When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in June 2012, leaders across the health care industry saw that reform not only was here to stay, but it would be accompanied by...
Financial Viability: The Challenges of Living in Two Worlds
Financial Viability: The Challenges of Living in Two Worlds “If they just gave us a clear set of rules, we would be able to figure out what to do!” This lament has never been more true for hospital board leaders, executives, and physicians. We often hear that the...