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The Guide to Good Governance for Hospital Boards
The Center for Healthcare Governance is pleased to provide The Guide to Good Governance, a resource for U.S. hospital boards and leaders adapted from the original Canadian version developed by the Ontario Hospital Association. The Guide contains a comprehensive overview of the key components of good governance practices, as well as templates and tools to support these practices.
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Thought Leadership Podcast Series
The Center for Healthcare Governance has developed a new Thought Leadership Series that brings expert perspectives on critical and emerging governance issues to health care organization board members, executives and physician leaders. Perfect for board meeting education, each program runs about 20 minutes and includes: an audio interview; a power point presentation with questions for discussion; a facilitation guide that explains how to use the program; and a program evaluation form. Programs in the series include, 1. Engaging Physicians to Improve Quality and Patient Safety: What Governing Boards Need to Know, 2. Using Trustee Competencies to Improve Board and Organizational Performance, and 3. Microgovernance: A New Role for Boards.
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DVD Series on the Board's Role in Quality and Patient Safety
The Board's Role in Quality and Patient Safety consists of a boxed set of three DVDs, each with four separate education programs are approximately 20 minutes in length. The Summit Series is designed to improve the understanding and capability of governing boards, orient new board members, develop and improve quality committee and medical staff education, and even "certify" the learning and growth of trustees. The programs are presented by James L. Reinertsen, MD and James E. Orlikoff, recognized experts in health care governance and leadership, and include footage of board and board quality committee meetings and interviews with hospital board members.
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New Monograph Outlines the Board's Role in Strategic Planning
Successful Strategic Planning: The Board's Role, discusses the process of strategic planning and how boards can participate in ways that add value and impact. This publication includes several planning tools, such as a sample planning timeline and strategy map that can help hospitals successfully implement the planning process and tie strategies and goals to achievement of the organization's mission and vision. Questions board members should ask to better understand their organization's planning processes and outcomes also are included.
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2010 AHA Environmental Scan
The 2010 American Hospital Association Environmental Scan provides insight and information about market forces that have a high probability of affecting the health care field. It is designed to help hospital and health system executives better understand the health care landscape and the critical trends and issues their organizations will likely face in the foreseeable future. The 2010 AHA Environmental Scan foldout is compiled from 35 nationally recognized sources with recommendations from select AHA governance committees.
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Governance in High-Performing Health Systems: A Report on Trustee and CEO Views
Led by Lawrence D. Prybil, M.A., Ph.D., a professor of health management and senior advisor to the dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health, and a member of the Center's National Board of Advisors, this research report examines the structures, practices, and cultures of community health system boards and compares them to several benchmarks of good governance.
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