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Capital Project Success Depends on Strong Board Oversight
Trustee Articles
In 2003, Princeton HealthCare System initiated a highly participative and comprehensive long-range strategic planning process. Among the participants were trustees, donors, physicians, elected officials, influential community members, and patients and their families, as well as administrators and clinical and service staff members.
Strategic Resource Allocation
Trustee Articles
Almost all hospitals face the issue of not having enough money to accomplish everything they would like to. So how does the board pick among winning ideas when it can’t afford them all? The resources needed to support operations and implement strategic initiatives can far surpass those available.
Boards and Philanthropy: Developing the Next-Curve Revenue Source for Health Care
Trustee Articles
Health care governing board members confront a complex and changing financial landscape in their role as stewards of health care organizations. Hospitals and health systems have faced slim bottom lines for an extended period that have reduced available dollars to invest in organizational advancement and forced many to change strategy, forego acquisition of new technology, delay physical plant improvements, reduce services and streamline staff.
Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment
Trustee Articles
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.
CMS to streamline survey process for psychiatric hospitals
Beginning in March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement a streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals, the agency announced today.
Health care strategists meet in Nashville
More than 2,000 health care strategists — including marketing, strategic planning, business development and communications/public relations professionals — attended the annual meeting of the AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development this week in Nashville.
Dashboards and Balanced Scorecards
Dashboards/Scorecards
The dashboard or “balanced scorecard” has become a staple of effective governance. Charts and numerical data provide a comprehensive picture of organizational performance. Here are some questions to assess whether your board’s dashboard is as good as it could be.
A Comparison of External Quality and Safety Scorecards
Dashboards/Scorecards
A Comparison of External Quality and Safety Scorecards
Board Quality and Safety Committee Orientation: Sample Agenda
Samples Agendas
How well boards govern is influenced by a number of factors, among them, the knowledge and skills board members bring to their work.
Governance Quality Engagement Diagnostic
Checklists
This diagnostic is designed to help boards and organization leaders identify challenges that may be impeding efforts to improve quality. Developed by Jim Conway, this resource draws on 20 years of personal governance experience as well as learning from the literature and the shared experience of trustees, executives, patients, family members, staff, teachers, and students.