Related Programs & Sessions

The Center is pleased to highlight several sessions on the agenda at the 2008 AHA Annual Membership Meeting which have been designed specifically for hospital trustees. 

Trustee Sessions:

Tickets for each event are $35 per person, with the package of three sessions plus the trustee breakfast available for $125.

Sunday,  April 6

• 2:30 - 4:00 pm: Success in Succession Management: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders
  Presented by the Center for Healthcare Governance
  
  V. James Fiorenzo, RPh, MBA, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA and Eric Hanson, Executive Consultant, Development Dimensions International, Pittsburgh, PA
  
  In order to prepare the organization for the future, Hamot Health Foundation proactively launched a plan to identify and accelerate leadership talent from within the organization. In this session, you'll learn about the roles Boards and CEOs should play in creating and executing a talent management strategy. The presenters will share an approach for identifying and deploying high performers, strategies for leveraging the latest assessment technologies, predicting the roles where leaders will be most successful, and evaluating the effectiveness of the talent management strategy. You will learn how to build leadership bench strength in your organization, so there's a steady pipeline of high potential leaders ready to step into executive roles when needed, and gain insights into an acceleration program that drives successful organizational performance linked to business strategies.

Monday, April 7

• 10:45 am - 12:15 pm: The Board's Role in Quality and Patient Safety: Practical Tools , Tactics, and Techniques The Role of the Health Care Trustee
  Presented by the Center for Healthcare Governance
  
  James E. Orlikoff, President, Orlikoff & Associates, Inc., and Senior Consultant, Center for Healthcare Governance, Chicago, IL
  
  The spotlight of governance reform is now focusing on holding hospital boards increasingly accountable for the quality and safety of the patients who are in our care. In part driven by the media's fueling a dramatic increase in public awareness of quality and safety problems and the age of transparency, there also is a growing body of data that demonstrates that boards can have a dramatic impact on improving quality and patient safety in their organizations. To effectively address these pressures requires a greater understanding of the elements of quality care and patient safety, the development of the board's quality literacy, and a clearer connection between the actions of leadership and organizational clinical excellence. This session will address the rationale for governance oversight of quality, and provide specific strategies and tools for improving governance performance in this critical area.

Tuesday, April 8

• 7:00 - 8:15 am: Trustee Leadership Breakfast National Political Update
  
  Amy Walter, Editor in Chief, The Hotline, Washington, DC
  
  In a fast changing health care environment, trustees are called upon to provide grassroots advocacy leadership and direction for hospitals and communities. Join AHA's Committee on Governance and other trustee leaders from across the country to hear Amy Walter, a top political forecaster and editor in chief of The Hotline, on the critical 2008 elections.
  
  
• 10:45 am - 12:15 pm: The Gremlins of Governance: What Keeps Me Awake at Night?
  Presented by the Center for Healthcare Governance
  
  

  Richard Chait, Research Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
  
  In Governance as Leadership, Richard Chait, a long-time student of nonprofit boards, offered a new way to think about non-profit governance, and a new way to think while governing.  He examined in principle and in practice, the concept of governance as leadership where trustees and senior executives work together in three different but related modes: fiduciary, strategic, and generative. In this session, Chait offers an update on his thinking about governance by discussing several dilemmas and trends that can lead to restless nights for people concerned about the health and future of trusteeship.

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Event: 2008 AHA Membership Meeting: Vision to Action

Details:  Overview | Agenda | Meeting Brochure

Location: The Hilton Washington - Washington, DC

Registration:  Registration Information