The following programming is designed to supplement and expand your organization’s orientation and board leader development processes, and to progressively build knowledge, skills and competencies tailored to specific leadership roles, environments and needs. Use the links below to learn more.

Fall Symposium on Governing & Leading Healthcare Organizations
Navigating Our Hospitals and Health Systems through Turbulent Times
September 13-16, 2009 - White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia   More information
 

Mid-Year Retreat Planning
Is your board planning an upcoming retreat? The Center offers customized options for programming with specialists qualified to offer structure, guidance and insight to even the strongest of leadership teams.  More information

Center Adds 26 New Tools to Resource Repository
The Center is pleased to announce the addition of 26 new tools to its online Resource Repository. The new tools address trustee selection and orientation, board accountability, CEO performance evaluation, and board member and board meeting evaluation, and include sample policies and charters. Members can access these and other Center tools via the Resource Repository on the Center's Web site by logging in. Tools also are also available for purchase for non-members. 
 Governance Resources
 Governance Toolbox
 Governance Research

New Monograph Examines Board's Role in Oversight for Capital Projects
The Center's recently released monograph is designed to help board members and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals. "Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment: What Health Care Boards and Executives Need to Know" includes information and insights as well as tools, references and other resources that will allow boards and executives to more confidently participate in the heightened oversight, scrutiny and decision-making about capital projects needed in the current economic environment.
 Read the preface 
 More on monographs
 Order a copy

New Blue Ribbon Report Focuses on Trustee Core Competencies
The Center for Healthcare Governance recently announced the release of the 2009 Blue Ribbon Panel Report Competency-Based Governance: A Foundation for Board and Organizational Effectiveness. The report includes recommendations for hospital boards of trustees, educators and researchers to better understand and practice competency-based governance. Use the links below to learn more about the Blue Ribbon Panel on Trustee Core Competencies, convened by the Center and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), with funding from Hospira, Inc.
 Read the press release
 Order a copy of the 2009 Blue Ribbon Panel Report
 More about the Blue Ribbon Panel Reports

Center Leaders Contribute to New Publication on the Board's Role in Strategic Planning
Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership, published in December by Productivity Press, is designed to help health care professionals serve as more effective board members and features a chapter contributed by Center president John Combes, MD, and Gene O'Dell, vice president of development & operations. The chapter, entitled “Strategic Planning: The Board’s Role," was excerpted in a recent issue of AHA News.
 View the AHA News story 
 More information on the book

 Quality Curriculum for Trustees

"We could not be more pleased with the feedback from the hospital trustees who have completed the program. The extensive and inclusive process used to develop the curriculum, pilot the program and customize it to each participating hospital’s board was well worth the effort. We now have a terrific program that will prepare hospital trustees to take an active role in monitoring and overseeing improvement in the quality of care delivered by hospitals."

- Karen S. Nelson, MPA, RN, Sr. Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Massachusetts Hospital Association

 Learn more about the Quality Curriculum for Trustees and the Board Quality Education Self Assessment Tool