Six new sample evaluation and governance audit instruments have been added to the Resource Repository on the Center's Web site. Easily downloaded and adapted for use by individual boards, this marks the second new set of tools added to the Center's online repository this year. Look for a third set of tools to be added in the coming weeks.

Sample evaluation resources include surveys for assessing trustee, committee and meeting effectiveness, as well as CEO performance. Resources include:

• Board Evaluation Process Overview
• Sample Board Peer Assessment Questionnaire for a Community Hospital
• Sample Committee Assessment: Board Audit and Compliance Committee
• Sample Meeting Effectiveness Survey (Board or Committee Meetings)
• Sample Chief Executive Officer Performance Appraisal Process and Assessment Form
• Sample Hospital Governance Audit Questionnaire

Center Members: To view these and all Center tools, visit our home page, click on "Resource Repository" and select "Governance Toolbox."

Fall Symposium on Governing & Leading Healthcare Organizations
September 13-16, 2009

White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia

Winter Symposium on Governing & Leading Healthcare Organizations
January 17-20, 2010

Naples, Florida

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The Center has begun to carry the work of the panel forward by surveying health care organizations on use of board and executive competencies. An online survey, developed by the Health Research & Educational Trust, the Center and The Corlund Group, was distributed on March 4 to hospital and health system CEOs and board chairs to gain a better understanding of how they use competencies in their governance and leadership practices.

Results of the survey will be used to develop tools and resources for hospitals and systems to support the practice of competency-based governance and leadership. To take the survey now, click here.

Overview | Registration Brochure

Health care is constantly changing and it's important to stay current on the latest news and trends in both health care and health care governance. The AHA Annual Membership Meeting is an excellent opportunity for new and returning board members to do just that.

Attention Center Members!

Center members attending the AHA Annual Membership Meeting April 26-29 in Washington, DC, are invited to join Center President John Combes, M.D., for a special welcome reception Sunday, April 26, at 4 p.m. at the Hilton Washington. The reception will also include a brief update on the current political climate for health care from AHA Vice President for Political Affairs Mark Seklecki.

The Center for Healthcare Governance this year again will sponsor three educational sessions at the meeting, taking place April 26-29 at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC.

• On Sunday, April 26, James E. Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, Inc., will examine the concept of "microgovernance" and outline how boards and CEOs can re-examine and refine a unique and productive governance/management balance that is essential to ongoing organizational success.
  
  
• On Monday, April 27, AHA Chair-Elect Rick de Filippi and Center President John Combes, M.D., will provide an overview of the work of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Trustee Core Competencies, convened by the Center and the Health Research & Educational Trust to examine the nature of leadership competencies and how they can be developed and applied to improve health care governance.
  
  
• Finally, on Tuesday, April 28, Kathryn J. McDonagh, Ph.D., vice president of executive relations for Hospira Inc., and Mary Totten, president of Totten Associates and the Center's director of content development, will examine how governance culture influences hospitals' performance improvement efforts.
  
  
• In addition, on Tuesday, April 28, the Committee on Governance will again sponsor the Trustee Leadership Breakfast: National Political Update. This year they will be joined by former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a nearly 20-year veteran of the Senate who served as assistant majority leader from 1984 to 1994.

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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 Larry Walker, president of the Walker Company, which specializes in governance development, market research, leadership retreats and strategic planning for hospitals and other health care organizations. Learn more about Larry below.

Larry Walker Speaker Bio Presentation Topics

More Information on the Center's Speakers Express

The Center for Healthcare Governance wants our members to be as connected as possible to our governance consultants. Being able to ask questions online and receive responses back quickly will give you access to the answers and resources you need in order to 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.

To view archived editions of the Center's bi-weekly email Center News & Updates, click here.