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Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment

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This monograph discusses today’s market environment, current capital market perspective and related risks, and then outlines a project management approach and questions that must be addressed to help board members and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals.

Trustee Mentoring: For Orientation, Leadership Development and More

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Mentoring, a process that pairs board members who are new to their roles with more seasoned board and executive resources for growth and development, traditionally has been used by health care boards to orient new trustees for board service.

Sample Board Orientation Manual Index

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Note:The following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.

Competency-Based Governance Toolkit

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The role of a health care organization trustee gets more complicated and more sophisticated every day. Pressures are increasing simultaneously for higher quality, lower cost, more transparency and accountability, and use of evolving and evermore expensive technology.
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What Hospital Board Members Need to Know: A Seven-Point Framework for Navigating COVID-19

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system boards play a critical role to assure plans, policies and resources are in place.
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Board Guidelines for a Time of Crisis

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To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
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Effective Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Boards can provide tremendous value and crucial support to their hospitals and health systems during the COVID-19 crisis.

Governing for Diverse Communities

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In July 2011, five national health associations jointly urged hospital and health system leaders to take three steps to help eliminate health disparities and improve quality of care. These steps called for increasing...

Evaluating and Improving Board Committees

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Working committees are the engine that powers effective boards. As their responsibilities increase, boards depend on their committees to engage in careful analysis and oversight of the organizationʼs performance plus a thorough vetting of recommendations before they are submitted to the full board. When committees do their job well and make concise reports to the board, they free up time to use full board meetings for education and open discussion on important strategic and policy issues.

Governing in the New Quality, Safety Landscape

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For effective oversight, boards must engage at three levels: see, own and solve.