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Effective Board Culture: The Last Frontier

Trustee Articles
Over the last decade, and especially since the Enron failure, boards of all types have been working to enhance their performance. They ensure their composition is competency-based; they align their structures with their strategies; and they have robust, written governance procedures.

Most Commonly Asked Questions About Board Committees

Trustee Articles
Here are some of the questions that we as governance consultants hear most frequently about board committees.

When Strategy Informs Structure: Successful Board Oversight of Physician Integration at Mercy Health

Trustee Articles
The road to integration of hospitals and physicians has been a rocky one for many health care organizations. Failed attempts to integrate in the 1990s resulted from the realization that operating physician practices was very different from operating hospitals, leaving many health care providers wary of heading down the same road again.

Governance, Leadership & Management Grid

Dashboards/Scorecards
By Stephen Mansfield While a clear, bright line between the roles of governance and management does not exist for every issue that boards and orga

Current High-Performance Governance Practices Tool

Checklists
For boards to participate in shaping their new organization, they must be currently performing at an extremely high level. The following is a list of four practices that hospital and health system boards must be engaged in today, in order to be successful in the future.

Alameda Health System CEO Finley strives to improve population health, affordability and access

AHA board member Delvecchio Finley leads Alameda (Calif.) Health System in bringing more services to the community it serves, meeting patients where they are and improving health outcomes with innovative approaches to address upstream interventions.

AHA’s Charge is to Define the Future, says AHA Trustee Doug Cropper

The Class of 2020 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.

Chair File: Quality Tools for Hospital Boards

Quality must be the top priority of any hospital or health system—there simply is no alternative. And it takes all of us working together.