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Board-Medical Staff Relations Survey Now in the Field
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The Center for Healthcare Governance and the Health Research & Educational Trust are pleased to announce that an online topical survey dealing with the increasingly important issue of Board–Medical Staff Relations is currently in the field. The current survey builds on the success of recent Center/HRET governance surveys on the topics of executive sessions and trustee demographics.
For the Board–Medical Staff survey, the Center and HRET are teaming up with Integrated Healthcare Strategies (IHS), a leading health care consulting firm. The survey was sent to board members, CEOs, and CMOs across the country last Wednesday, April 9, and will be in the field for the remainder of the month.
The survey includes 14 questions designed to collect information about current practices regarding board engagement with physicians and non-physician clinical staff, including:
- The criteria used to select physician candidates for the board (ex-officio status, election status, or specific expertise);
- The primary criterion used to differentiate between qualified physician candidates who do not hold an ex-officio position and are not elected by the medical staff (political affiliation, community knowledge, clinical expertise, business knowledge, prior board experience, etc.);
- Board actions, engagements, and authorizations with the physician staff around issues including quality and patient safety, administration, reimbursement, and strategic planning; and
- Board attendance and participation in medical staff meetings, educational events, and planning and assessment activities.
The Center, HRET, and IHS will produce a monograph, to be available online later this year, based on survey results and other resources. This monograph will discuss current Board–Medical Staff relationships and identify behaviors exhibited by boards and leadership who are committed to developing a healthy culture with their physicians. The Center, HRET, and IHS also will conduct a roundtable discussion on the findings of the study at the AHA/Health Forum Summit this July.
If you are a board member, CEO, or CMO, and have not yet had a chance to respond to this survey, you can do so by following the link below.
 Board Members, CEOs and CMOs: Take the Survey Here
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Quality Curriculum for Hospital and Health Care
Trustees
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New Publications from the Center!
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Remember to check for two new Center publications in this
month's issue of Trustee
magazine. The April issue includes a Center Voices column on modernizing
board communications, as well as a new Trustee Workbook on governance and
hospital performance improvement.
April's
Center Voices column on modernizing board communications is authored by Joe
Ruck, CEO of Center member BoardVantage, a provider of secure, hosted board
portals. In addition to discussing the increasing use of electronic
communication by hospitals and their boards, the column highlights the
advantages of adopting a board portal for trustee communications (including
easy access to information, secure email capability, reduced risk of
litigation and ability to store and retrieve historical documents) and
features an account of one hospital's success in streamlining delivery and
access to board meeting agendas and supporting materials.
The Center's
second Trustee Workbook of the year is co-authored by Center faculty and
consultants Mary Totten and Jamie Orlikoff, health care executive Kathy
McDonagh, and Jean Chenoweth, health care researcher and senior vice
president for Thomson Healthcare Performance Improvement and the 100 Top
Hospitals Programs. The workbook, which focuses on governance and hospital
performance improvement, summarizes qualitative research interviews with
hospital CEOs and board chairs in five organizations, including community
and rural hospitals, system members and academic medical centers. The
workbook discusses how governance responsibilities, such as board
self-evaluation and CEO evaluation are conducted, and how performance
improvement is monitored and overseen by these organizations and their
boards. The workbook also addresses aspects of board culture, such as the political
and strategic nature of the board, and their implications for the board's
impact on hospital performance improvement.
Reminder: You can access archived Center
Voices and Trustee
Workbooks, via the Center's Web site, under the Publications menu!
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Ask the Governance Expert
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 The Center for Healthcare
Governance wants members to be as connected as possible to our governance
consultants. Being able to ask questions online and receive responses back
quickly will ensure you'll find the answers and resources to help you
achieve excellence in health care governance.
Please fill out the
Center's Ask the Governance Expert online form with your specific question
or request, and you will be contacted within 24 hours with a reply. In
addition, please feel free to use this form to submit feedback about the
Center's services so that we can better serve you.
Please
note that this is a member-only resource. Only submissions by Center
members will be answered.
More
information on Ask the Governance Expert and the online
submission form.
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Register Today for Hospital Trustee Professionalism Conference
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Upcoming Events!
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Hospital Trustee Professionalism:
Building Capacity for Excellence
in Governance
June 26-27, 2008
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
at Capital Park
- Sacramento, CA
Overview | Agenda | Conference Brochure
 Are you new to the hospital board or looking to better
define your role as a board member?
At this 1 1/2-day
conference, participants will discover the governance practices that help
boards to run most effectively, the critical issues facing health care,
and the skills and competencies needed to meet the specific roles and
duties of the board. First-term and newer trustees will acquire new
knowledge to help them fulfill their roles on the board, enabling them to
become more informed about their organizations, more aware of their
governance responsibilities and better prepared to engage in active and
productive oversight while serving as a hospital trustee. Participants
will find this conference instrumental in building a solid foundation for
effective governance.
Participants
will receive:
- Rich interaction with
experienced faculty with extensive opportunities to gain counsel on
one's own governance issues.
- Practical governance
tools from the Center's online Resource Repository, including board
charters, board committee charters, and position descriptions.
- A comprehensive
conference guide, including hard copies of presentations.
- A certificate for 10% off
the Center's Governance Assessment Process for each participating
hospital.
Educational
Partner: The
California Hospital Association
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Holding in
Trust: Catholic Health Care Governance
May
13-14, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
Conference
Information
Hospital Trustee
Professionalism: Building Capacity for Excellence in Governance
June
26-27, 2008
Sacramento, California
Conference
Information
Fall
Symposium on
Governing & Leading
Healthcare Organizations
September
14-17, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
Hospital Trustee Professionalism:
Building Capacity for Excellence in Governance
November
10-11, 2008
Orlando, Florida
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Speaker Spotlight
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The Center for Healthcare Governance developed Speakers Express to help
make the high-caliber speakers
and presenters found at its national symposia and regional workshops
available to organizations throughout the country. Our speakers are proven
professionals who are viewed as the "go-to" leaders in their
respective fields of expertise, customizing their presentations to fit the
unique needs of each organization.
The Center for
Healthcare Governance introduces David L. Bernd, FACHE, chief executive officer of Sentara Healthcare, an integrated health system with
net revenues of $2.5 billion, ranked the number one integrated health care network in the United States in
2001 by Modern Healthcare magazine (with exclusive status as the only health care system to be
named in the top 10 for the past 10 years). Learn more about David L. Bernd below:
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Archived Center News & Updates
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To view archived editions of the
Center's bi-weekly email Center News & Updates, click here.
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