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 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 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: 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 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 “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...
